Artist in Person Whether it be in collaboration with avant-garde composers, dancers or performers, John Sanborn has shown unusual prowess with the tools of the video medium. Beginning in the late '70s, Sanborn began dovetailing his superb agility with new technology and a highly kinetic sense of graphic composition. This has led him to continually re-invent the possibilities for cutting-edge video in an exotic and gymnastic spectacle of recombinant visual techniques. For this special evening, John Sanborn, almost as flamboyant as his videoworks, will VJ the story of his life in video, using multiple VCRs and twenty works completed between 1977 and 1990. Included will be such surefire delights as Perfect Lives: Episode Four, Robert Ashley's sing-song TV opera with music by Blue "Gene" Tyranny; Big Electric Cat, a supercharged video made for Adrian Belew; Act III, a phantasmogoria of whirling cubes and spheres, highlighted by a Philip Glass score; Sister Suzie Cinema, a buoyant doo-wop opera, written by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, starring 14-Karat Soul; Cause and Effect, an experiment in high definition video in which percussionist David Van Tieghem plays a samba with the streets of New York; Words On Fire, fiery vignettes performed by five modern-day storytellers, including Rinde Eckert, Christopher Durang and Fred Curchak; and NHK/Zorn, a live performance by composer John Zorn and his band Naked City, intermittently shattered by blasts of found footage. --Steve Seid