Video 81, Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 1981

This contains a unique contribution by William S. Burroughs, “Kim Makes the Grand Tour”, p. 48. According to the magazine, it is “taken from a previously unpublished work-in-transit from the Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, John Giorno 1981 tour.” This is the same tour that the LP You’re the Guy I Want to Share My Money With was recorded from, but I did not spot this contribution on the recording.

A loose (final) variant of this contribution can be found in The Western Lands, at page 194.

Published in San Francisco, California, US by Video 80 Magazine in Fall of 1981.

This copy was acquired from Mare Booksellers (Dover, New Hampshire, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 19811000VIDE.2.1

Selected Contents:

• Stephen Agetstein: editorial
• unstated: "PSAs" (letters, news)
• Dr.Telecom: "Ask Dr. Telecom" (Q&A)
• Edio Vitaly and David Waters: "Video Lawyer/David Waters" (interview)
• John Sanborn: "Clues to Visual Humming (The Video Artist as Schizoid)" (essay)
• Bob Greene: "Video Games Go to War: Space Invaders from Minsk" (essay)
• Jon Carroll: "I Can Quit Anytime..." (essay)
• Willoughby Sharp and Paul Ryan: "Paul Ryan – Video Pioneer: 'From Teen Age Monk to Video Bareback Rider'" (interview)
• Bonnie Freer: photograph
• Linda Zarella: drawing
• Bill Mandel: "Video Sports" (essay)
• Tony Labat: "POV!" (essay)
• Chip Lord: "ABSCAM: Video in Crime and Justice: An artist-investigator's report" (essay)
• Chip Lord: photographs
• Michael Naimark: "Some Notes on Movies and Form" (notes)
• Video 81: "San Francisco International Film Festival – The Complete Catalog" (listing)
• Marian Kester: "Money, Hitler, TV, Marx & Engels" (essay)
• John Minkowsky: "Bill Viola's Video Vision" (essay)
• Robyn Nietert: "One View: Are Earth Stations Legal?" (essay)
• Michael Chance: "Public Porn Gets the Shaft" (essay)
• Anne Milne: "Across the Canadian–U.S. 'Electronic Curtain'" (essay)
• Kathy Huffman: "...Cable Replies: 'We'll Call You'" (essy)
• Lowell Darling: "Lowell Darling for President in 1984" (statement)
• Curtis Schrieber: "Telly Vision" (illustration)
• William Burroughs: "Kim Makes the Grand Tour" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Publisher: W. J. Garfield
• Editor: Stephen Agetstein
• Design Director: Chip Lord
• Contributing Editor: Willoughby Sharp
• Photographer: Jules Backus
• Advertising Director: Steve Reid
• Printing: Descalso Lithograph, Inc.