Debbie Jaffe - My Cunt - Dada-style poetry reading - 1983
Channel: Hal McGee
Date: 2013-08-09

Debbie Jaffe performing her poem "My Cunt" at the "Poetry For A Nude Descending" poetry reading event curated by David Mattingly and hosted by Rick Karcasheff in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, September 17, 1983. Debbie Jaffe created the digital transfers from Jack Sexson's original VHS tape recordings. This was recorded during the same time period as the "Swamp Patrol 84" cassette (by Jaffe, McGee, and Mattingly) and "A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies" by Viscera. This recording along with many others from 30 years ago in 1983 were recently discovered or uncovered, and soon I will upload to YouTube many of these rare archival videos of poetry and musical events that were held at Rick Karcasheff's house. Debbie Jaffe and I owe a great debt to Karcasheff for introducing us to so much great experimental and underground music, the Aeon Distribution Catalog, mail art zines, and especially Daniel Plunkett's ND zine, and the whole great big world of homemade music and hometaperism! This is before Jaffe's infamous Master/Slave Relationship records, but certainly prefigures the developments that led to MSR.