Other Projects
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Ryan, Paul, 1943-
- See more items in
- Paul Ryan papers
- Paul Ryan papers / Series 5: Project Files
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' Hidden Collections grant program.
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.ryanpaul, Subseries 5.3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Paul Ryan papers, 1931-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- See 1986 Notebooks in series 3, Writings, more notes relating to Tethys.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents
- Other projects include performances, freelance jobs, and art projects. Contracts and agreements include a loan agreement with Ira Schneider of Raindance for video equipment borrowed from Ryan in 1969. Ryan's research on video uses and equipment include correspondence, notes, and brochures for video equipment. Tethys was an environmental artwork by Bob Schuler involving a round-the-world sea voyage on which Ryan traveled. His project documenting the journey is referred to in his records as "What the Camera Conceals." Tethys files include photographs of Ryan, Schuler, and crew, as well as proposals and notes on Ryan's video production. "Video Wake for My Father" was a project that spanned nearly twenty years, beginning as a taped private performance, then becoming a video and public performance, and later a published play accompanied by poetry by Ryan's brother, Jim Ryan. One sound cassette of Ryan reading the piece is also found. Among the proposals in this series is a long essay reflecting on Ryan's stint as the first reviewer of grant proposals to the New York State Council on the Arts in the field of video during the 1970s. Another proposal concerns the preservation of his video recordings, which includes a printed report from a database of hundreds of tapes shot by Ryan, including all the tapes in this collection.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers and archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513299790-1503513299853-9
- Metadata Usage
- CC0