Tyler Ingolia collection of Popstitutes videotapes, 1988-1997.
Collection Number: 7830
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Tyler Ingolia collection of Popstitutes videotapes, 1988-1997.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7830
Abstract:
Original videocassette recordings of performances by the Popstitutes. Performers who
appear in the videos include Michael Collins, Brad Kellogg, Alvin Orloff; cabaret
performer, writer, and transgender activist Justin Vivian Bond; transwoman cabaret
singers Veronica Klaus and Bambi Lake; composer and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky;
pop novelty act the Del Rubio Triplets; punk performers and writers Jennifer Blowdryer
and Danielle Willis; Drew Daniel of the experimental electronic music duo Matmos;
painter and queercore performer Jerome Caja; avant-garde drag performer The Steve
Lady (Steven Price); and Fudgie Frottage (Lu Read), co-founder of the San Francisco
Drag King Contest. None of the videos have been published or posted online.
Creator:
Ingolia, Tyler
Collins, Michael, 1958-1995.
Kellogg, Bradley.
Orloff, Alvin, 1961-
Bond, Justin.
Klaus, Veronica.
Lake, Bambi, 1950-
Dubowsky, Jack Curtis.
Blowdryer, Jennifer.
Willis, Danielle.
Daniel, Drew, 1971-
Caja, Jerome, 1958-1995.
Steve Lady, 1971-2008.
Frottage, Fudgie.
Del Rubio Triplets (Novelty act)
Quanitities:
14 videocassettes.
Language:
Collection material in English
The Popstitutes were an influential San Francisco queer performance group and punk
band founded in 1986 by Michael Collins ("Diet Popstitute"), Brad Kellogg ("Bad Popstitute"),
and Alvin Orloff ("Remix von Popstitute"). Tyler Ingolia performed as a dancer and
extra with the Popstitutes, and appeared regularly in sketches presented at Klubstitute,
the itinerant weekly queer club night hosted by the Popstitutes in the first half
of the 1990s.
Original videocassette recordings of performances by the Popstitutes. Performers who
appear in the videos include Michael Collins, Brad Kellogg, Alvin Orloff; cabaret
performer, writer, and transgender activist Justin Vivian Bond; transwoman cabaret
singers Veronica Klaus and Bambi Lake; composer and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky;
pop novelty act the Del Rubio Triplets; punk performers and writers Jennifer Blowdryer
and Danielle Willis; Drew Daniel of the experimental electronic music duo Matmos;
painter and queercore performer Jerome Caja; avant-garde drag performer The Steve
Lady (Steven Price); and Fudgie Frottage (Lu Read), co-founder of the San Francisco
Drag King Contest. None of the videos have been published or posted online.
The collection also includes an unreleased documentary about the Lavender Tortoise,
a combination of bus tour and performance art that brought a coachload of drag queens
and queer punks to Los Angeles and Disneyland in 1991. Several Klubstitute regulars
participated in the trip. Also included is a video of an early show at Trannyshack,
a week drag cabaret and queer dance club hosted by Heklina from 1996 to 2008 at The
Stud in San Francisco. A number of performers who had made their names at Klubstitute
went on to appear at Trannyshack.
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Tyler Ingolia Collection of Popstitutes Videotapes, #7830. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings,
viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. All videos in
this collection have been digitized.
Names:
Popstitutes (Musical group)
Klubstitute (Nightclub)
Trannyshack (Nightclub)
Lavender Tortoise (Tour)
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Popstitutes
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Box 1 | V-8990 |
The Popstitutes
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1989 |
Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Easter at the DNA Lounge (San Francisco). This event was produced and hosted by Lu
Read (aka Fudgie Frottage). The Popstitutes headlining with the Del Rubio Triplets,
along with Phillip R. Ford and others. Video by Rapa (last name unknown).
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Box 1 | V-8991 |
"The Mugging", plus Southern Exposure Shower Scene/Bed Scene; The Popstitutes
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1988 |
Digital |
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Scope and Contents
First performance at Southern Exposure (San Francisco). Most likely promotional videos
created by Bradley Kellog, Michael Collins and Alvin Orloff.
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Box 1 | V-8992 |
Smutfest (1 and 2?), Popstitutes performance
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1990 |
Digital |
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Digital |
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Scope and Contents
DNA Loundge (San Francisco). This was the first of Jennifer Blowdryer's Smutfests
in San Francisco. Headlined by The Popstitutes, with special guest dancer Jerome Caja.
Huge line-up of other performers, including Danielle Willis, Lily Braindrop, Phillip
R. Ford.
Smutfest 2 was the second of Jennifer Blowdryer's Smutfests, held at the DNA Lounge
(August 1990). The Popstitutes were again the headliner. Line-up of performers included
Bambi Lake, Veronica Klaus, Danielle Willis and many others. Both shows videotaped
by Sister Aqua Divina.
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Box 1 | V-8993 |
The Popstitutes w/ Blatz.
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1991 |
Digital |
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Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Performance at 924 Gilman Street Project (Berkeley). Videotaped by Kevin Gladstone
for his cable-access queer TV Show, Striaght Talk TV.
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Series II. Klubstitute
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Box 1 | V-8994 |
James T & the Kirkettes. Star Trek Video
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1991 |
Digital |
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Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Short video directed and filmed by Michael Macintosh. A Star Trek parody with characters from the original series and the "Next Generation" TV show.
Featuring Leigh Crow as Kirk, Zeon Kircher as Uhura, Tyler Ingolia as Counselor Deanna
Troi, Johnny Kat as Yeoman Rand. Liegh performs "Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds" to
William Shatner's recorded version.
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Box 1 | V-8995 |
New Wave Video 2000: Missionary Man/Somebody Told Me/Copy (Me)/Star Wars Docs
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1994 |
Digital |
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Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Excerpt from "New Wave Video 2000 #5" of Tyler Ingolia covering Eurythmics with a
live musical accompaniment by Sean Kennedy.
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Box 1 | V-8996 |
Soap Box Derby/Video 2000 New Wave, Nite at Klubstitute/RuPaul [illegible]/Surf Show
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1993 |
Digital |
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Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Klubstitute at a warehouse space (name unknown). Hosted by Diet Popstitute and cohosted
by David Hawkins. A go-cart race around the block outside the club, featuring go-carts
created the previous week by various Klubstitute performers, activists and artists,
such as Justin Bond and Robbie D.
Also the first "New Wave Video 2000," parody of the Southern California new wave
dance party music video shoe called MV3. Hosted by Deena Davenport. Live and lip-synched performances by many Klubstitute
luminaries: Justin Bond, Robbie D. tyler Ingolia, Seanetta, Mark Menke, Sean Kennedy
and others. Djs Alvin Orloff (Popstitutes) and Drew Daniels (Matmos). Videotaped by
Sean Kennedy.
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Box 1 | V-8997 |
Deena Davenport's New Wave Video 2000
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1994 |
Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Might be New Wave Video 2000 II, Klubstitute at The Stud (San Francisco) as videotaped
from different vantage points by David Jude Thomas. There may be brief interviews,
etc. DJ Robbie D.
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Box 1 | V-8998 |
New Wave Video 2000, Vol. I, II, II. Klubstitute.
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1993-1995 |
Digital |
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Scope and Contents
An edited compilation of the shows also listed as II and III in the next two tapes.
Video taped by Sean Kennedy and David Jude Thomas.
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Box 1 | V-8999 |
Deena Davenport's New Wave Video 2000 II & III/Klubstitute/The Stud. Sean's Version
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1994 |
Digital |
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Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Klubstitute at The Stud (San Francisco). Show: New Wave Video 2000 II and III, a parody
of the Southern California new wave dance party music video show called MV3. Hosted by Deena Davenport. Live and lip-synched performances by many Klubstitute
luminaries: Justin Bond, Robbie D. tyler Ingolia, Seanetta, Mark Menke, Sean Kennedy
and others. Djs Alvin Orloff (Popstitutes) and Drew Daniels (Matmos). Videotaped by
Sean Kennedy.
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Box 1 | V-9000 |
Deena Davenport's New Wave Video 2000 III. Klubstitute. Original copy
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1994 |
Digital |
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Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Third New Wave Video 2000 show. Probably Klubstitute at The Stud or at what used to
be The Oasis (both in San Francisco). DJs Alvin Orloff (Popstitutes) and Drew Daniels
(Matmos).
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Box 1 | V-9001 |
New Wave Video 2000 #5
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1995 |
Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Klubstitute at The Cat Club (San Francisco). Fifth New Wave Video 2000 show. This
is one of the better shows, most of the performances were live, with a live band.
Performances by Sean Kennedy, Tyler Ingolia, Jack Curtis Dubowsky and classical ensemble,
many more. Videotaped by Sean Kennedy.
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Series III. Miscellaneous
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Box 1 | V-9002 |
The Lavender Tortoise
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1991 |
Digital |
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Scope and Contents
Documentary of Greg Taylor's "Lavender Tortoise" queer tour for Los Angeles and Disneyland.
Directed by Ken Woodard.
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Box 1 | V-9003 |
Bowie, T. Shack. Witch Hazel & Model Stuff.
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1997 |
Digital |
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Scope and Contents
First tribute to David Bowie at Trannyshack (San Francisco). Hosted by Heklina, co-hosted
by The Steve Lady (Steven Price) as Iman-Ch-Chi and a plethora of early Trannyshack
performers. DJ Robbie D.
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