Drop City (Screening)
@ Graham Foundation, Madlener House
4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, October 3rd, at 6PM
RSVP at: http://dropcity.eventbrite.com/
Drop City is the first feature-length documentary film about the artists who created a community of iconographic dwellings from the scrapheap of a wasteful society. Drop City’s practices of art, architecture and sustainable living influenced a generation. Inspired by new theories and performances by Allan Kaprow, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and others at Black Mountain College, the Droppers created a form of conceptual art based on performance, random interactions, and found materials. Their experimental buildings and creative practices became a model for alternative communities throughout the world. In 1966, Buckminster Fuller honored Drop City with his Dymaxion Award for “poetically economic structural accomplishments.” The Droppers were at the forefront of what is now called “techno-culture”—a do-it-yourself ethos of decentralized technology. The story is told through a stunning array of film footage, photos, and interviews with Drop City’s former residents, including artists, poets, inventors, and activists.
Image: Theater Dome under construction, 1966
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