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"SO LONG AGO I CAN'T REMEMBER".(Michael Counts)(Brief Article)
Artforum International, September, 2001 by Breidenbach, Tom
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Michael Counts's So Long Ago I Can't Remember--a divine comedy was an evening-long collage of successive performances that led the viewer ever deeper into a renovated warehouse in Brooklyn. It added up to a phantasmagoric satire of such lamentable passages of Western history as Nazi Germany and the Inquisition, as well as a glimpse of the human tendencies that underlie such episodes of destruction. Based loosely on Dante's epic poem, the performance took the audience on a lavishly set and lit walking tour of the nine circles of hell to visit lost souls--from ...
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