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And Now for Something Completely Different

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And Now for Something Completely Different is Art & Language's segment in Zoran Popović's 1977 film Struggle in New York.

Track list

  1. A Lot of Sad Feelings...Fan Mail
  2. Harangue
  3. Plekhanov

Background

  • The segment was filmed in October or November 1976
  • It features members of the New York Provisional Art & Language group in a semi-improvised performance similar to Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors from earlier that year
  • It was filmed in sculptor John Chamberlain's New York studio on 76 Vestry Street
  • The title is a phrase from Monty Python

Further reading: the chapter "Keep All Your Friends" in Robert Bailey's book "Art & Language International: Conceptual Art Between Art Worlds"

Posters and copies of Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4 are a prominent visual

Behind the scenes photos

References