Jack smith flaming creatures10/13/2023 If you watch the films of Jack Smith it becomes immediately clear that the last thing that drove Jack Smith was the audience and that is why his work is so intriguing. The play was called “The Secret of Rented Island” and it ran seven and a half hours. Some might see that performance as a conceptual piece but I don’t. That’s what happened one night and Jack Smith gave the performance anyway. Smith – who pretty much created what is now known as performance art – gave late night performances and Smith and Zorn had wondered what would happen if nobody showed up. There is a scene in Mary Jordan’s recent documentary “Jack Smith & the Destruction of Atlantis” where composer John Zorn describes Jack Smith performing to empty chairs in downtown New York City in the mid-1970s.
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