A Benefit Reading for 112 Workshop
February 12, 1978 112 Greene Street/WorkshopExhibition Description
On Sunday at 3:00 PM, the following writers, performers, and artists donated their time and energies for 112: Cindy Lubar and Christopher Knowles read from Knowles’ Network, a performance piece seen in Europe and America; Jacki Apple read from Trunk Pieces, originally installed in 112 in 1975; Joe Brainard read a series of humorous prose poems entitled Exercises; Kate Millet read from The Basement, an unpublished work dealing with the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1967; Fran Lebowitz read from her recently published book Metropolitan Life; Charles Ludlam escaped from a straightjacket put on him by an assistant, a transvestite nurse played by Everett Quinton; Spalding Gray of the performance Group read from the text oh his play, Rumstick Road, a letter from his father about his mother’s suicide; Stuart Sherman performed excerpts from Portraits of Places in which he did mini-actions evoking cities in the United States and Europe; Joan Larkin read lesbian love poetry; and Bill Veher read a passage from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. Paula Cooper Gallery donated the space for this event.
Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.
