And back on the Highwire...

As has been said, & Poetry Incarnation '05 notwithstanding, the meat & potatoes of the el primo Philly Free School "glory year" ('04/'05) were the shows we curated at the Highwire Gallery, when it dwelt several floors up in the Gilbert Building on the PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) campus. The shows were wild, crazy, debauched, and also profitable; we made a reasonable amount of money on the surface. Yet the theoretical & spiritual backbone of the shows, worked out between myself & Mike Land, is presented in this 2010 piece published in Otoliths, and the piece goes some distance towards defining how a bunch of guys attempted to stage something unique in public spaces.