by
Tetsuo Kogawa
I had many encounters in New York City between the late 70s and early 80s. This was the stimulative period that could never happen in the present situation. At the time Rem Koolhass wrote DELIRIOUS NEW YORK. In fact, delirious and boosted paranoia was everywhere.
- 1976-1979 (B/W) : Chelsea, West Village, and SoHo
- 1977-03-27 (color): David Peel and Philippe Petit in Washington Square park
- 1978-1993 (color) : Manhattan and Brooklyn
- David S. Lifson initiated me into the lively New York in the 70s.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer talked about Kafka's friend Jacques Levy (Djak Levi, Yitskhof Levi, Jizchak Löwy) and the Yiddish theater.
Tetsuo Kogawa's Interview: April 19, 1977 at his home. [46 min., MP3 26.5MB]
- Harold Clurman talked about his Group Theatre and the political situation of theaters in New York. Tetsuo Kogawa's Interview: February 19, 1977 at his home. [85 min., MP3 34MB]
- Jerzy Grotowski lectured at The Lindisfarne Association for Planetary Culture on March 14, 1977 with an amazing translator Jacques Chwat. [123 min., MP3 56.4MB]
- Sid Vicious was reported that he killed his girl frinend Nancy Spangen at the Chelsea Hotel where I had spent just before the incident, and then he died next year. My old clippings: The Soho Weekly News (October 19, 1978), Village Voice (October 23, 1978), New YorkPost (October 23, 1978), Globe And Mail, Canada (February 3, 1979), Village Voice (February 12, 1979), and The Soho Weekly News (February 8, 1979).
- Sol Yurick let me have exciting and profound dialogues on information, media, technology and politics. [in preparation]
- May 1, 1986, John Downing, Sol Yurick, Jim Fleming, Yasunao Tone and I had a Mini FM transmission.
- "Lost-Memory-Lost" (only in Japanese) (1997, unfinished) [a person of amnesia walks around on the streets.]