Let’s Have Lunch
A sketch comedy program.
Interview by Bill Stamets for the Chicago Sun-Times with the subjects of the 1999 documentary “American Movie,” Mike Schank and Mark Borchardt, as well as its director, Chris Smith, and producer, Sarah Price.
Unedited recording of a live performance by the Chicago band Poi Dog Pondering at the Vic Theatre in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. This tape, part 2, features the encore.
Footage from a performance of an English-language version of the Bertolt Brecht play “The Mother.” This performance appears to be at a smaller theatre, with very minimal set and prop design—many of the setting details are conveyed by the chorus saying the scene’s expository text out loud in unison. This tape contains the first four of the play’s fourteen scenes.
“Architecture is not about space but about time.” -Vito Acconci Vito Acconci’s artistic legacy is boundless, his influence pervading all mediums of art, beyond just those he mastered. This year Acconci turned 76, and while his fertile mind has continued to produce sculptures and structures all over the world, much of his early work in video and performance has gone long unseen. This month the MoMA PS1 in Queens will open the first U.S. retrospective of Acconci’s work in three […]