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Colab: Documents from the End of the '70s

THE THING @ WHITE SLAB PALACE
Monday Screenings
Monday, September 27, 8pm

Raw courage or criminal stupidity? Early adventures in musical performance and alternative space making.

"X Magazine Benefit" (1978/2009; 12 min., b/w) Nearly all-black Super-8 document of the pre-No Wave concert with Contortions, DNA, Boris Policeband

shot by Alan Moore; edit by Coleen Fitzgibbon

“The Real Estate Show” (1979/80; 28 min., b/w) On-site uncut video of artists setting up the insurgent art exhibition that spawned ABC No Rio

shot by Mitch Corber