Research Catalog

Title

Ariana Reines, Miss St's hieroglyphic suffering [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

c2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Reines, Ariana.
• Huppuch, Birgit, 1969-
• Kraus, Chris.
• Cronson, Mary Sharp.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (64 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Ariana Reines discusses the history and background of her play, Telephone, based on the Telephone book by Avital Ronell; her writing process for creating this play beginning with Carl Jung's transcription of Ms. Straub's sessions; how she creates the text for her other poetry work; how she constructs her poetry; and the process of self publishing her second book quickly to avoid changing it during a normal two year publishing period.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

Miss St's hieroglyphic suffering

Subjects

• Dramatists, American > 21st century
• Video
• Poets, American > 21st century
• Reines, Ariana
• Dance
• Poetry, Modern > 21st century

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Dance.

Note

• Widescreen.
• Inspired by The telephone book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric speech, by Avital Ronell.

Credits (note)

• Director, Ken Rus Schmoll ; sound design, David Linton ; costume and set design, Florencia Vetcher and Sigfus Breidfjord ; stage manager, Casey Llewellyn.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 15, 2009 (7:30 pm).

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Mary Sharp Cronson.

Biography (note)

• "The character Miss St is based on Babette Straub, who was a patient at the Burghölzli university clinic in Zürich, where the young Karl Jung conducted clinical research from 1900 to 1909. Her case was marked by numerous pathologies, including, as she claimed, that she suffered the slander of invisible telephones." -- Works and process at the Guggenheim house program.

Contents

• Introduction (ca. 1 min.) / by Mary Sharp Cronson.
• Act II, Scene 2 (ca. 32 min.) / performed by Birgit Huppuch.
• Panel discussion (ca. 19 min.) / moderator, Chris Kraus ; interviewee, Ariana Reines.
• Poetry reading (ca. 7 min.) / by Ariana Reines.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5345

OCLC

503098751

Title

Ariana Reines, Miss St's hieroglyphic suffering [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

c2009.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 15, 2009 (7:30 pm).

Performer

Moderator: Chris Kraus ; panel: Ariana Reines (writer).

Performer, Birgit Huppuch (actress).

Credits

Director, Ken Rus Schmoll ; sound design, David Linton ; costume and set design, Florencia Vetcher and Sigfus Breidfjord ; stage manager, Casey Llewellyn.

Biography

"The character Miss St is based on Babette Straub, who was a patient at the Burghölzli university clinic in Zürich, where the young Karl Jung conducted clinical research from 1900 to 1909. Her case was marked by numerous pathologies, including, as she claimed, that she suffered the slander of invisible telephones." -- Works and process at the Guggenheim house program.

Local Note

For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Reines, Ariana. Interviewee

Reines, Ariana. Author

Huppuch, Birgit, 1969- Actor

Kraus, Chris. Moderator

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor NN-PD

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5345