USCO Performances at Anthology Film Archives
By: Anthology Film Archives, Program (Feb 01, 2005)

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[In the 1960's, Michael Callahan, President of Museum Technology Source, was involved in applying new technology in the broad fields of art and music. A retrospective performance of some work will be held at the Anthology Film Archives in New York March 25, 26 & 27 2005 Below is an excerpt from Anthology Film Archives' program]

8:00 SPECIAL SCREENING
USCO

Anthology invites one and all for for rare performances of image, sound and inner/outer space exploration by multimedia pioneers USCO. Well known for doing the unknowable, USCO exemplified the experimental zeitgeist of the 60s era. We are lucky to have the original members still with us, and even luckier to have them restaging their celebrated and transfixing works for this unmissable event.

Performances will take place Friday March 25,26,27 at 8:00 pm. Pre performance talk Saturday, March 26 at 6:00 pm. Special performance, with luncheon, to benefit Intermedia Foundation, March 27 at 1:00 pm.

USCO founders Michael Callahan and Gerd Stern will be on hand to orchestrate these technically and aesthetically challenging events in Anthology’s Courthouse Theater.

According to Jonas Mekas, Anthology’s founder and Director, “Some forty years ago I presented USCO’s work at the Expanded Cinema Festival, never thinking that we could do it again. In an era where happenings, performances and expanded cinema were dominating the arts, USCO was among the very best of the bunch. I’m elated to reintroduce their work in 2005 because I think we might have finally caught up to what they were onto back then. . Many of the artists I see these days in Chelsea galleries are the children of USCO, but they probably don’t know it. Now is the time for them to meet their parents."

Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)