Lenora Champagne Papers

Call Number

MSS.153

Date

1984-1991, inclusive

Creator

Champagne, Lenora

Extent

36 Linear Feet

in 32 record cartons, 4 manuscript boxes, 1 tall manuscript box, 2 flat boxes, and 1 CD box.

Extent

91 videocassettes (vhs)

Extent

146 audiocassettes

Extent

47 videocassettes (u-matic)

Extent

2 videocassettes (dvcam)

Extent

1 videocassettes (betacam)

Extent

2 videocassettes (dvcpro)

Extent

2 videodiscs (dvd)

Extent

8 sound discs (cd)

Extent

8 videocassettes (minidv)

Extent

1 sound tape reels

Extent

1 videocassette

Extent

3 videocassettes (hi8)

Extent

1 film reels

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Biographical Note

Lenora Champagne (www.lenorachampagne.com) came to New York from Louisiana to be a painter, but found her voice in performance. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU in 1980, Champagne has been making work as a performance artist, playwright, and director. She received a NYFA Fellowship in Playwriting in 1998 and a NYFA Fellowship in Performance Art in 2003. Champagne has been awarded three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (in solo performance, directing, and an artist's residency in Canada); recieved commissions and project support from NYSCA, DCA, the Peg Santvoord Foundation, the Joyce Gilmore Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, among others; and has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her work in galleries and arts spaces such as Franklin Furnace, the New Museum, and Creative Time's Art on the Beach is mostly live performance, though she also co-created an installation for the New Museum's Art Mall as Social Space show in 1992, and wrapped babies in words for Shattered Anatomies, a box anthology of objects and texts on performance, Arnolfini, 1997. Champagne frequently collaborates with sculptors, installation artists, and media artists. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, a former resident HARP artist at HERE Arts Center (where she developed TRACES/fades, an intergenerational performance with music and video that is a meditation on memory, loss, and our national inability to remember history), and is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Purchase College, SUNY. Champagne edited and contributed to Out From Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists (Theatre Communications Group, 1990); her publications include performance texts, plays and essays published by Smith & Kraus, Performing Arts Journal, Performance Research, Plays and Playwrights 2009 and The Iowa Review.

Arrangement

The materials in this collection are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of video footage of numerous performances by Lenora Champagne between 1984-1991.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Lenora Champagne Papers; MSS 153; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Access copies for some materials are available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Please contact fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Collection processed by

Ashley Todd, 2011.

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 17:15:03 -0400.

Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Revisions to this Guide

March 2017: Updated by Jacqueline Rider to reflect incorporation of video preservation master and sub-master files.

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections

Series I: Video

Conditions Governing Access

Researchers may request to view material from Subseries B: Access Copies.

Subseries A: Originals

As Ready, Apart From Herself - Pick Up Shots (at Franklin Furnace), 1986

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0013 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:10:00]

As Ready, Apart From Herself, Written & Directed by Lenora Champagne, Recorded 16 May 1986, 1986

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0012 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:34:00]

Eye of the Garden Complete, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0023 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:48:00]

Eye of the Garden - Tape 1 of 3, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0022 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:15:00]

Eye of the Garden - Tape 2 of 3, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0020 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:21:00]

Eye of the Garden - Tape 3 of 3, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0021 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:17:00]

Fractured Juliet by Lenora Champagne (at Real Art Ways), 1985 - 1986

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0010 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:23:00]

Fractured Juliet, Getting Over Tom (studio version taped at Real Art Ways), circa 1986

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0007 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:13:00]

Home: A Performance by Lenora Champagne (at Danspace Project), 1986

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0015 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:45:00]

Isabella Dreams The New World Reel #1, 1990

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0005 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [01:01:00]

Isabella Dreams The New World Reel #2, 1990

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0006 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:26:00]

Lenora Champagne: "Fractured Juliet," "The Eye of the Garden" (Excerpts), Undated

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0008 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:37:00]

Lenora Champagne, Reptile Warmth (excerpt with video treatment), 1985

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0001 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:23:00]

Lenora Champagne with Kevin Duffy and Patricia Pretzinger P.S. 122, 19 November 1984 [1] - From The Red Light District, 1984

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0014 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:51:00]

"Lenora's Tape" (taped at Real Art Ways) : [1] - Getting Over Tom [2] - Fractured Juliet [3] - The Ways to the River [4] - Reptile Warmth (excerpt), circa 1986

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0009 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:54:00]

[1] - Manna [2] - Flying Home, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0024 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:46:00]

Manna, Unedited Original - Tape 1, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0017 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:22:00]

Manna - Tape 2, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0018 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:20:00]

Manna - Tape 3, Undated

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0019 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:13:00]

Master: Excerpts from Works by Lenora Champagne, [1] - As Ready, Apart from Herself [2] - Home [3] - Eye of the Gardent [4] - Fractured Juliet [5] - From the Red Light District [6] - Manna [7] - Getting Over Tom [8] - Fractured Juliet, Undated

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0003 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:24:00]

Monsters, "The Face" (Performance in Support of the NEA, Master Tape from MK's), 1990 - 1991

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0004 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:28:45]

Reptile Warmth, April 18, 85, Nicky Keiji, 2nd Take Copy, 1985

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0002 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:11:00]

Winter Heat: A Performance by Lenora Champagne with Andre Gribou, Recorded 18 January 1987, 1987

Box: 1, Media: ID: 153.0011 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:50:00]

Women Without Parts - Written & Performed by Lenora Champagne, Recorded 11 January 1988, 1988

Box: 2, Media: ID: 153.0016 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Duration: [00:40:00]

Subseries B: Access Copies

Conditions Governing Access

Access copies for some materials are available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Please contact fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

As Ready, Apart From Herself - Pick Up Shots (at Franklin Furnace), 1986

case: 153.0063 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:10:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

As Ready, Apart From Herself, Written & Directed by Lenora Champagne, Recorded 16 May 1986, 1986

case: 153.0060 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:34:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Eye of the Garden Complete, Undated

case: 153.0093 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:48:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Eye of the Garden - Tape 1 of 3, Undated

case: 153.0090 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:15:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Eye of the Garden - Tape 2 of 3, Undated

case: 153.0084 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:21:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Eye of the Garden - Tape 3 of 3, Undated

case: 153.0087 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:17:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Fractured Juliet by Lenora Champagne (at Real Art Ways), 1985 - 1986

case: 153.0054 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:23:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Fractured Juliet, Getting Over Tom (studio version taped at Real Art Ways), circa 1986

case: 153.0045 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:13:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Home: A Performance by Lenora Champagne (at Danspace Project), 1986

case: 153.0069 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:45:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Isabella Dreams The New World Reel #1, 1990

case: 153.0039 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [01:01:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-matic

Isabella Dreams The New World Reel #2, 1990

case: 153.0042 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:26:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Lenora Champagne: "Fractured Juliet," "The Eye of the Garden" (Excerpts), Undated

case: 153.0048 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:39:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Lenora Champagne, "Reptile Warmth" (excerpt, with video treatment), 1985

case: 153.0027 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:23:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-matic

Lenora Champagne with Kevin Duffy and Patricia Pretzinger P.S. 122, 19 November 1984 [1] - From the Red Light District, 1984

case: 153.0066 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:51:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

"Lenora's Tape" (taped at Real Art Ways) : [1] - Getting Over Tom [2] - Fractured Juliet [3] - The Ways to the River [4] - Reptile Warmth (excerpt), circa 1986

case: 153.0051 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:54:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

[1] - Manna [2] - Flying Home, Undated

case: 153.0096 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:46:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Manna, Unedited Original - Tape 1, Undated

case: 153.0075 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:22:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Manna - Tape 2, Undated

case: 153.0078 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:20:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Manna - Tape 3, Undated

case: 153.0081 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:13:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Master: Excerpts from Works by Lenora Champagne, [1] - As Ready, Apart from Herself [2] - Home [3] - Eye of the Gardent [4] - Fractured Juliet [5] - From the Red Light District [6] - Manna [7] - Getting Over Tom [8] - Fractured Juliet, Undated

case: 153.0033 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:24:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Monsters, "The Face" (Performance in Support of the NEA, Master Tape from MK's), 1990 - 1991

case: 153.0036 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:32:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Reptile Warmth, April 18, 85, Nicky Keiji, 2nd Take Copy, 1985

case: 153.0030 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:11:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-matic

Winter Heat: A Performance by Lenora Champagne with Andre Gribou, Recorded 18 January 1987, 1987

case: 153.0057 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:50:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Women Without Parts, Written & Performed by Lenora Champagne, Recorded 11 January 1988, 1988

case: 153.0072 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: DVD

Duration: [00:40:00]

Original Format: 3/4" U-Matic

Subseries D: Preservation Masters - CLOSED

Conditions Governing Access

CLOSED

ID: 153.0025 - 153.0031

Box: Shared Fales PM 40 (Material Type: Moving Images)

ID: 153.0034 - 153.0073

Box: Shared Fales PM 41 (Material Type: Moving Images)

ID: 153.0076 - 153.0095

Box: Shared Fales PM 42 (Material Type: Moving Images)