Series I: Memorial Dress
Scope and Content
Series I documents Hunter Reynolds' Memorial Dress project, spanning the years 1992-2010. The series includes material related to the construction and exhibition of his Memorial Dress -- a black ball gown silk-screened with the names of 25,000 people who died of AIDS. Exhibitions of the dress were modeled by Reynolds in character as his alter ego, Patina du Prey. The Memorial Dress was premiered in 1992 at the ICA of Boston, was presented during the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, and produced in collaboration with The Contemporary Art Institute of New York. The material documents the conception and exhibition of the Memorial Dress in the U.S. and internationally, and includes press, production material, exhibition files, and the dress itself.
Arrangement
The Series is divided into two subseries, documenting the production phase and the exhibition phase of the dress and its accompanying materials. Folders are arranged alphabetically.
Subseries A: Memorial Dress and Book production
Art in America - Memorial Dress Picture, 2006
Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space Memorial Book and Transcriptions, 1993-2007, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Comment Book (Photocopies) Berlin, Germany NGBK, 1993
Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Books Bound [1 of 3], undated
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Books Bound [2 of 3], undated
Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Books Bound [3 of 3], undated
Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book Loose Pages, undated
Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Name Transcriptions [1 of 2], undated
Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Name Transcriptions [2 of 2], undated
Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Names Transcribed, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Original Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, 1997
Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Original Buch 1 - Kassel, 1997; Parsons 2001, 1997; 2001
Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Original Buch 2 - Boston 1996; Berlin 1997; Parschs 2001, 1996; 1997; 2001
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Original Buch 3 - Parsons Dec.1, 2001, 2001
Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Original Buch 4 - Parons, Dec. 1, 2001, 2001
Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Original Buch 5 - Judson 2010; DWA 2000; Parsons 2001, 2010; 2000; 2001
Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book Pages, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book Photocopies, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book Production, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ray Navarro - Inspiration From Death Bed, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book Plaque, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book Spiral Bound, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Book - Transcriptions Buch 5 & Sheets, 2000-2001, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Adding of the Names, 1996
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Book Drafts, 1996
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Exhibition/Performance Plaques, 1996
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Fundraising Letters, 1996
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Misc., 1996
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Names Lists [1 of 2], undated
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Names Lists [2 of 2], undated
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Press, 1996
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Programs and Cards - German, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress - Promotional Cards, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Quilt Book - Names, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Patina Du Prey's Memorial Dress Comment Book - Dress Codes (Unbound), 1993
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Patina Du Prey's Memorial Dress - Press, 1993-2007, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries B: Memorial Dress and Book Exhibitions
[AIDS Projekte - German Brochure], 1993
Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space, March 2007
Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space, 2007
Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space - Left Wall, Timeline, Memorial Book Pages, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space - Right Wall - Name LIst, Photos [1 of 2], undated
Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space - Right Wall - Name List, Photos [2 of 2], undated
Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space - Statements & Press Releases, 2007
Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artists Space - Translations from German to English, 2007
Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Campion, Edmund - "Music to Turn On", 1993; 2006; 2007, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence - Gupta, Sunil, 1993-1994, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence - Henryson, Maxine, 1995-1996, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Creative Time - Simon Watson, 1994
Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Dead from AIDS" Correspondence, 1987-1991; 2004, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Di Raimondo, Gia [Ask Hunter?], 1980-1986 [?], inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Documenta Kassel, 1997
Box: 5, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Getting to Know You - Reading of the Names, 1992
Box: 5, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hagen, undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hamburg, Leuchtfeur, June 9, 1995
Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ICA Boston, 1993
Box: 6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum - Hagen - Thema AIDS, 1993
Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Life Ball, Vienna, Austria, May 6, 1995
Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[loose papers, Memorial Book?], undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Love AIDS Riot Sex - Catalog - NGBK, undated
Box: 6, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Love AIDS Riot Sex - Programs etc., undated
Box: 6, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mary Goldman Gallery - "The Moon Over Gerhard", 2004
Box: 6, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress to File, undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memorial Dress Performance - Berlin, 1997
Box: 6, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mensch, William, 1989-1994, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Neher, Krista, 1994
Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Survival AIDS/David Wojnarowicz Rimbaud Series - Catalog PPOW, 2012
Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Traveling Exhibition, 2008
Box: 6, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Trinitatiskirche - Koln - Catalogs, undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Trinitatiskirche Koln - Exhibit, 1994
Box: 6, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Trinitatiskirche Koln - Exhibition Book, 1994
Box: 6, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Trinitatiskirche Koln - Photos Copies, undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1997
Box: 6, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries C: Memorial Dress Sound and Video Recordings
Hunter Reynolds - Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - ICA/ Boston, 1993
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0001 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 319.0001 (Material Type: Moving Images)
Language of Materials
English.
Existence and Location of Copies
Access DVD available.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 4 minutes
Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - Master 1 "Dump tape", 1993
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0002 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 319.0002 (Material Type: Moving Images)
Language of Materials
English.
Existence and Location of Copies
Access DVD available.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 20 minutes.
Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - Master 2 "Dump tape", 1993
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0003 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 319.0003 (Material Type: Moving Images)
Language of Materials
English.
Existence and Location of Copies
Access DVD available.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: 20 minutes.
Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - Compilation Master, 1990-1993, inclusive
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0004 (Material Type: Moving Images)
Language of Materials
English.
Scope and Content
1. 2. The Banquet. Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds 3. The Memorial Dress. Duration: 4 minutes
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: 3/4" Umatic
Duration: Unknown
Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - Kunst-Werke, Berlin, 1995
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0005 (Material Type: Moving Images)
General
Per tape annotaion: Copy von SVHS. Copyright: Karen Fischer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: VHS
Duration: 15 minutes
Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - possibly Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0006 (Material Type: Moving Images)
General
Per tape annotaion: Copy von SVHS. Copyright: Karen Fischer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: VHS
Duration: 13 minutes
Hunter Reynolds - Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress - Performance, circa 1993
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0008 (Material Type: Moving Images)
case: 319.0008 (Material Type: Moving Images)
Existence and Location of Copies
Access DVD available.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: HI-8
Duration: 6 minutes.
Unidentified, Circa 1990s
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: Video 8mm
Duration: Unknown
Life Ball, 1995
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0009 (Material Type: Moving Images)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: VHS
Standard: May be PAL
Duration: Unknown
Reading of NAMES - Getting to Know You
Box: 9, Media: ID: 319.0010 (Material Type: Audio)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: 1/4" audiocassette
