Mitch Corber
Mitch Corber is a New York City neo-
Education, performance, and video history
Corber graduated from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1971 and shortly thereafter moved to New York City's Lower East Side, became influenced by the slide show performances and films of Jack Smith, and became an early member of Colab. Corber contributed to All Color News, Just Another Asshole and X Magazine.[5]
During this period he became known as a performance artist with his Corber/Jolson Goes to Harlem performance.[6] Riding the subway in blackface, Corber sang My Mammy crouched on one knee in true Al Jolson style. Lines include, "I'd walk a million miles For one of your smiles, My Mammy!"
He also appeared in
In 1988 Corber conducted a taped interview with
Corber is an awardee of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant as producer of Poetry Thin Air Cable Show and for founding the Thin Air Video Poetry DVD Archives: which includes material on Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, John Ashbery, Diane di Prima, and John Cage.
He has created a DVD called John Cage: Man and Myth (1990) with appearances by
Poetry history
Corber is the author of the poetry collections Weather's Feather and Quinine.[11] Since the early 1980s Corber has read his poetry throughout New York City. His poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Vanitas, Nedge, Mirage, BlazeVOX, Blackbox Manifold 4, Listenlight, Polarity and tight.
He resides in East Village, Manhattan.
Footnotes
- ^ Colab Members
- ^ running since 1989 on Time-Warner Manhattan Cable, airing weekly at Wednesday Midnight in Manhattan, Channel 34
- ^ Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985
- ^ Mitch Corber at The New Museum
- ^ Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985
- ^ INTERVIEW Gregory Stephenson:Skating On Thin Air: An Interview With Mitch Corber
- ^ Masters, Marc. No Wave. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007, pp.148–149
- ^ "Rebellion of the quiet Retrospective of James Nares, No Wave's subtlest filmmaker". Archived from the original on September 1, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
- ^ INTERVIEW Gregory Stephenson:Skating On Thin Air: An Interview With Mitch Corber
- ^ YouTube video Ludlow Street with Clayton by Mitch Corber on PoetryThinAir
- ^ INTERVIEW Gregory Stephenson:Skating On Thin Air: An Interview With Mitch Corber
References
- Carlo McCormick, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Princeton University Press, 2006.
- Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985.
- Masters, Marc. No Wave. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-906155-02-5
- Pearlman, Alison, Unpackaging Art of the 1980s. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Taylor, Marvin J. (ed.). The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, foreword by Lynn Gumpert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-691-12286-5
External links
- Poetry Thin Air
- Mitch Corber – Reaganomics/Infinitessimus (1:57) published on the Ubuweb
- Mitch Corber: Budge, Budge, Budge the Budget (1:13) published on the Ubuweb
- Mitch Corber – The Sirens (4:50) published on the Ubuweb
- INTERVIEW Gregory Stephenson:Skating On Thin Air: An Interview With Mitch Corber
- REVIEW Lehman Weichselbaum: On Quinine by Mitch Corber
- ANTHOLOGY Patterson, Clayton (ed.): Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side
- Archived Mitch Corber video Original Wonder 1 (1980)
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