Pisces Midheaven Project
A series of responses to the Lenore Herb audio collection for Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week 2018.
About
Over the summer of 2018, artists Elisa Ferrari and Casey Wei began the excavation of Vancouver artist and activist Lenore Herb’s audio cassette collection at VIVO’s archive. In an ongoing digitization and transcription process of over 20 hours of interviews, panel discussions, conversation, audio collage, and other bits of ephemera. For Recollective, Ferrari and Wei created a publication of excerpts from their transcriptions, a poster of Lenore’s cassettes, and a mixtape of audio from the voices, issues, and sounds of the Vancouver art scene, 40 years prior. Pisces Midheaven is accessible at the Recollective online archive along with the projects of all participating partners. This page features the released project as well as the materials digizitized and transcribed by Ferrari and Wei over the course of their research. The poster, publication, and mixtape can be purchased by writing the CDMLA. All proceeds support VIVO’s digitization projects.
Released Project
Side A
Side B
Description: Poster created for the Pisces Midheaven project. “Pop Hits, Local Release, Bootleg, Mixtapes, and More From the Lenore Herb Cassette Archive”.
Title: Pisces Midheaven Poster
Creator: Wei, Casey
Commissioned by: Vancouver International Archives Week: Recollectives 2018
Subject: Photography – Documentation
Date Created: 2018
Type: Publication
Genre: Art and Culture
Extent: 1 poster
Format:
Language: English
Is Part Of: Lenore Herb fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Sara Diamond fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use of this media must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: Ferrari and Wei digitized and transcribed over 20 hours of interviews, panel discussions, conversation, audio collage, and other bits of ephemera for this project.
Title: Pisces Midheaven excerpts from the Lenore Herb Cassette Archive
Creator: Ferrari, Elisa; Wei, Casey
Commissioned by: Vancouver International Archives Week: Recollectives 2018
Subject: Music – Sound Art – Photography – Documentation
Date Created: 2018
Type: Publication
Genre: Art and Culture
Extent: 79 pages, text and photos
Format: Bound
Language: English
Is Part Of: Lenore Herb fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Sara Diamond fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use of this media must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Side A
- Auditions: Valeeta’s Monologue
- Mark Diamond talks Performance Art with Lenore and Angela
- Lenore, Alex, Dermot: Jam
- Pisces Midheaven Part 1 (Lenore Herb’s chart as explained by Brian)
- Phone Message 1
- Lenore at an art party
- Si Monki: NEUVOsHUeVOS’ (excerpt 1)
Side B
- Lenore on CBC: Pet Peeves about People’s Driving Habits
- Exploit ’86: Anthems and screams
- Lenore and Dermot: Psychosexual Power Game
- Doctor 15, Take 2
- Lenore and Angela talk revolution
- Phone messages 2 & 3
- Field recording outside the VAG [Vancouver Art Gallery]
- Pisces Midheave Part 2 (Lenore Herb’s chart as explained by Brian)
- Si Monki: NEUVOsHUeVOS’ (excerpt 1)
Title: Pisces Midheaven: A Lenore Herb Mixtape
Creator: Elisa Ferrari, Casey Wei
Contributor(s):
Producers: Recollective Vancouver Independent Archives Week; Satellite Video Exchange Society
Original content creator: Lenore Herb
Participants: Valeeta, Angela Dermot Foley, Alex, Brian, Si Monki.
Credit and thank yous: Thank you Karen Knights, Steffanie Ling, Sophie Roberge, and Dermot Foley.
Date Created: 2018
Length: 1:00:00
Type: Audio Recording
Genre: Audio art
Extent: 60min. audio cassette
Digitized: 2019
Format: audio/mp3
Language: English
Identifier: LHA_Pisces Midheaven_audio
Is Part Of: Satellite Video Exchange Society
Source: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Satellite Video Exchange Society fonds.
Rights: Videos provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Research
Material digitized and transcribed through the course of this project is available to researchers. Contact the CDMLA to access: library@vivomediaarts.com.