Last month, in our ongoing series of ABC No Rio interviews, we left off with Colab member, artist, and historian Alan Moore. The story resumes with Nate Hill.

Whitney Kimball: When you began at ABC No Rio, you were living in the basement?

Nate Hill: No, I never lived at ABC No Rio.

WK: Had Colab kind of dropped off around the point when you started working at ABC No Rio in 1983?

NH: What's Colab? If I knew, I could answer.

WK: And why did you think that was? A dropoff in interest?

NH: Interest in what?

WK: Did you keep the same structure Colab had put in place?

NH: I don't know.

WK: Would you say you set a certain tone in the programming?


NH: I was not involved.


WK: You started a screening series when you came in...

NH: No, I really didn't it.

WK: And there were full-fledged plays going on as well?


NH: I don't know.

WK: And were you receiving any press coverage?

NH: ???

WK: Yea, it seems like...most of the people I've talked to who ran the space for a couple of years just came in, and they were writing grants.

NH: I don't know.

WK: Whether or not you knew how to do it.

NH: OK.

WK: With [ABC No Rio] becoming a non-profit, do you think that's limited any of its activities?

NH: I couldn't answer that.

WK: And around that time, ABC lost NEA funding?

NH: OK.

WK: So before you became a nonprofit, would you say you were able to do things that you wouldn't have been able to do elsewhere?

NH: I was not involved.

WK: Did that lead to some backward movement in negotiations with the city?

NH: Negotiations?

WK: The meeting never happened?

NH: What meeting?

WK: Do you think it's possible at all for another art space to happen as ABC No Rio did, in its founding? Do you think it's conceivable for someone to take over a space and have it be legitimized as it has been?

NH: I don't know.


WK: Do you think that the energy that you came in with has changed, and do you think it will change with the new structure?

NH: No clue.