Documentation of the Hill
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BOOKS AND JOURNALS (chronological)
- THE HILL
by Gabriele Schafer (Autonomedia – 2021), available through Gabriele, Autonomedia, or Amazon)
- ETHNOGRAPHY BY DESIGN: SCENOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENTS IN FIELDWORK
by Christine Hegel, Luke Cantarella, George E. Marcus (Bloomsbury Publishing – 2019) - OFF SITES: CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE BEYOND SITE-SPECIFIC with Footnotes
by Bertie Ferdman (Southern Illinois University Press – 2018) - PAJ: A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART, Volume 37, Number 2
by Bertie Ferdman (MIT Press – 2015) - THEATROGRAPHIE: HEINER MUELLERS THEATER DER SCHRIFT
by Guenther Heeg, Theo Girshausen (Vorwerk 8 – 2009) - THE CITY CULTURES READER
edited by Malcolm Miles and Tim Hall with Iain Borden (Routledge – 2004) - MUELLER IN AMERICA
contribution by Nick Fracaro; edited by Dan Friedman (Castillo Cultural Center – 2003) - FRAGILE DWELLING
by Margaret Morton (Aperture Foundation – 2000) - CATHIERS DE MUSEE NATIONAL D’ART MODERNE
by (Centre Georges Pompidou – 1998) - ON EDGE–Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century
by C. Carr (Wesleyan University Press – 1993) - TRANSITORY GARDENS, UPROOTED LIVES
by Diana Balmori and Margaret Morton (Yale University Press – 1993) - CULTURAL STUDIES, VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2 (Routeledge – 1993)
Redeeming witness: in the tracks of the Homeless Vehicle Project, by Dick Hegdige, Appendix by Nick Fracaro - AMERICA IS AN OLD COUNTRY (Dick Hebdige), Artforum — October 1992
(can also read here)
EXHIBITS/READINGS
- Reading/Presentation of The Hill (P.I.T.) – 2023 (video here)
- Camcorder Box (Canal Street Research Association) – 2022
- Counting Coup (Tipi at Canal & Chrystie Streets) – 1991
- Bushville and The Hill (Henry Street Settlement), including reading of Prisoner of Love by J. Genet – 1992
- Home Sweet Home (Brecht Forum) – May 1993
Article about the exhibit in Street News - The Apartment Store (Exit Art, the First World) – 1993
- New Museum retrospective — see attendant audio below
MANHATTAN PAYPHONES NOW DOUBLING AS TIME MACHINES TO 1993 (Staff), Curbed – Apr 4, 2013
(From the April/May 2013 exhibit at the New Museum)
NEWS STORIES (chronological)
- REVISITING THE TIPI ON THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE ‘HILL’ (Gabriele Schafer), Bowery Boogie — February 4, 2022
- NEW BOOK ON THE HILL: A TIPI IN A NYC SHANTYTOWN (Editorial staff) New York Almanack — January 22, 2022
- THIS WAS THE HOUSE THAT LOUIS BUILT (Margaret Morton), New York Newsday — August 26, 1993
- HEARTBREAK HILL (editorial), New York Newsday — August 19, 1993
- CITY RAZES HOMELESS SHANTIES (William T. Slattery), New York Post — August 18, 1993
- CAMP BOOT (Sheryl McCarthy), New York Newsday — August 18, 1993
- FOR HOMELESS, A LAST HAVEN IS DEMOLISHED (Ian Fisher), New York Times — August 18, 1993
- REFUGEES AGAIN (E. Sachar, T. Shioya), New York Newsday — August 17, 1993
- THE ARCHITECTURE OF THOSE CALLED HOMELESS (Patricia Leigh Brown), New York Times, March 28, 1993
- ‘TERRIFIED’ FAMILIES IN BID TO BOOT HOMELESS (Rocco Parascandola), New York Post — January 2, 1993
- COPS NAB MAN SHOOTING CAR (Rocco Parascandola), New York Post — September 23, 1992
- POINT OF RETURN (Bill Landis), The Village Voice — Summer 1992
- FEDS ZERO IN ON COPS (M. Parente, L. Levitt, D. Kociennierwski), New York Newsday — June 18, 1992
- THE MASTER BUILDER (J.A. Lobbia), The VillageVoice — June 17, 1992
- SHANTYTOWN FAMILY HONORS ONE OF ITS OWN (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 11, 1992
- BLAZE OF GLORY IN SHANTYTOWN (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 9, 1992
- CON HELD IN SHANTY FIRE DEATH (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 5, 1992
- SHANTY DWELLERS CALL COPS ABUSIVE (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 2, 1992
- INFERNO EN LA BARRIADA (EDLP), El Diario — May 31, 1992
- ARSON AT MANHATTAN BRIDGE SHANTIES LEAVES ONE DEAD (James Bennet), New York Times — May 31, 1992
- REMAINS OF DEADLY FIRE (Alan Raia), New York Newsday — May 30, 1992
- SHANTY INFERNO (Daniel Hays), Daily News — May 30, 1992
- CELEBRATION ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE (Bob Morris), New York Times — May 24, 1992
- IN SEARCH OF BOHEMIA (C. Carr), The Village Voice — February 4, 1992
- IN CHILL OF THE NIGHT, THE HOMELESS CHANGE HABITS (?) New York Times — January 21, 1992
- SHANTTOWNS BECOMING COMMONPLACE IN N.Y., Washington Post — January 4, 1992
- FOR SOME PEOPLE, HOME IS WHERE THE HILL IS (Jacquie McNish), [Toronto] Globe and Mail — October 14, 1991
- VOICE CHOICES (C. Carr), The Village Voice — September 10, 1991
- MEMORIALS OF WAR AND PEACE (Andre V. Tchelistcheff), The Livable City [Municipal Art Society] — September 1991
- KILLER CUTS AND KILLER COPS (?), Workers Vanguard — July 5, 1991
- OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS: SHANTYTOWN (James Lardner), The New Yorker — July 1, 1991
- CITY PLANS RAIDS ON HOMELESS CAMPS (Michael Powell), New York Newsday — June 26, 1991
- HE’LL TAKE MANHATTAN (Don Helasy), New York Post — November 27, 1990
- SQUATTER WAR COMING TO ‘THE HILL’ (Andrea Peyser), New York Post — July 9, 1990
- THE YOMIURI AMERICA (date?)
ESSAYS
- THEATER AND SEVEN-CARD-STUD (by Nick Fracaro)
- THIEVES THEATRE’S LAST STAND (by Noah Gardiner)
PLAY
THIEVES THEATRE’S LAST STAND (incl. Heiner Mueller’s Despoiled Shore Medeamaterial Landscape with Argonauts, also performed as part of the evening.
FILMS
Trailer for the book, The Hill (2021)
Trailer for The Hill project (2021)
CANAL STREET: FIRST STOP IN AMERICA, by Emmy® Award-winning director/producer Keiko Tsuno and Asian-American issues specialist Peter Kwong, 1998
TORTUGA CRAWL (10:52) — made in 2019 by Nick and Gabriele in honor of Mr. Lee
MISCELLANEOUS FILM FOOTAGE shot while Gabriele and Nick were living on The Hill:
https://youtu.be/BSVwrCuscE0
https://youtu.be/qPVSYZRyQ-4 (42 minute interview with Nick)
https://youtu.be/e4Bnd6l66j4 (news footage)
https://youtu.be/tugAkDup2zE
https://youtu.be/0JML23HP2y0
https://vimeo.com/397084714/0e4ea1aeeb
https://vimeo.com/397085391/ce9cefbe82