Sheree Rose & Tosh Berman in conversation

Performer and photographer Sheree Rose freaks forth with thoughts on poetic restraints, sadomasochism, love’s lasting impact, and artistic collaboration within the Beyond Baroque scene throughout her life spent with poet and artist Bob Flanagan. This program is part of a series, Beyond Baroque and Beyond, in which Tosh Berman, writer, poet, Los Angeles publisher of the postwar French literati, and beloved host of the 1980s cable talk show Tea With Tosh, returns to the screen to confabulate with figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways. Summoned to Berman’s virtual sofa are a host of poetic voices, each of whom have been central to the center’s programs at a point between 1980 and 1996. Not merely interviews, Beyond Baroque and Beyond is equal parts séance, chat show, reunion, literary production, past life regression, tea time. No nostalgia. In conjunction with the exhibition Made in L.A. 2020: a version. This is a recording of a program broadcast live on June 29, 2021.

Jack Skelley & David Trinidad with Tosh Berman on Beyond Baroque (Hammer Museum, Beyond Baroque and Beyond)

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Tosh with Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, & Amy Gerstler - Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 7PM PDT

 

An online tête-à-tête between Tosh Berman and poet-auteurs Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, and Amy Gerstler about their so-called poet-gang, the special friendships formed by the L.A. literati in the early 1980s, being influenced by the French (i.e. literary hauntedness), and the specific problems and pleasantries of poetic programming. Introduction by Made in L.A. 2020 artist Sabrina Tarasoff. Twitter/Instagram: @hammer_museum Facebook: HammerMuseum

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Hammer Museum's Beyond Baroque & Beyond with Tosh Berman, Amy Gerstler, Dennis Cooper, and Benjamin Weissman

 

Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weisman, Amy Gerstler & Tosh Berman

TUE JUN 22, 2021 7 PM PDT

An online tête-à-tête between Tosh Berman and poet-auteurs Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, and Amy Gerstler about their so-called poet-gang, the special friendships formed by the L.A. literati in the early 1980s, being influenced by the French (i.e. literary hauntedness), and the specific problems and pleasantries of poetic programming.

In this three-part online interview series, Tosh Berman writer, poet, Los Angeles publisher of the post-war French literati, and beloved host of the 1980s Tea With Tosh, returns to the screen to confabulate with figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center's haunted hallways.  Summoned to Berman's virtual sofa are a host of poetic voices, each of whom have been central to the center's programs at a point between 1980 and 1986.  Not merely interviews, Beyond Baroque is equal parts séance, chat show, reunion, literary production, past life regression, tea time, no nostalgia. 

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