Chicago Performance Art Series Cabaret, video documentation
Dani K., Robert Metrick
June 9, 1991
Creative Access Description
Colour analogue video of a cabaret performance. A woman in a long flowing leopard print dress briefly introduces the performers before stepping offstage. A white man with short curly hair, wearing glasses, a brown suit jacket and pants, and a button up shirt walk onstage, apologizing for being late. He proceeds to deliver a line of poetry to the audience before leaving the stage. A white woman with shorter dark hair wearing a loose fitting brown sweater and shorts carries two red painted moose antlers on stage. She stands still for a moment before breaking into song a cappella. After a verse, the man begins singing from offstage, the audience laughing at the lyrics, which seem to describe an abstraction of a relationship. The camera pans around the room, eventually finding the man in the rafters above the stage. The woman begins singing again in a kind of call and response form with a humming accompaniment from the man mixed with awkward harmonies. Audience members chuckle occasionally and applaud enthusiastically when the performance ends.Description
Video documentation of Dani K. and Robert Metrick's performance for the Chicago Performance Art Series Cabaret. Shot by Mike MacDonald.Identifier
1991.0609 CAB V002Extent
1 Hi-8 tape, 00:07:41Tape Number
91-011Language
Videographer
Mike MacDonaldRelated program
Chicago Performance Art Series Cabaret (Related)In copyright. For uses outside of Fair Dealing please contact grunt gallery.