Ross Sutherland and His Adventures in Videotape
Scottish poet, storyteller, and artist Ross Sutherland arrives in New York this week with a show called Stand By for Tape Back-Up. It's a meditation on grief, nostalgia, and the odd bits of life we pick up along the way. Sutherland performs the show live with a looping VHS tape of clips from movies, television, and advertisements as the back-drop. It's an indescribable delight (though I tried to describe …