I Hate America! (I Love America)
Lucky Pierre Free University
I Hate America! (I Love America): Who Owns Myth, Pop, Money, Race, and Terror in the Land of the Free? was a six month collaboration and conversation between artists in the UK and the US who have been researching, dissecting, celebrating and arguing about the United States.
Lucky Pierre initiated the project, bringing together thirty one collaborators from both sides of the Atlantic to collaborate online and in a live workshop in London to produce simultaneous performances and a 10-hour conversation between London and Chicago on November 30, 2013 at the Glass Factory in London and Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago.
UK participants: Lola Godoy, Laura McDermott, Anni Movsisyan, Laura Rosemary Murphy, Sophie Nathan, Alastair Flindall, Alisa Leimane, Gary Gardiner, Albert Smith, Ian Nulty, Samantha Comelli
US participants and Lucky Pierre: Michael Thomas, Matthew Nicholas, Holly Abney, David Kodeski, Edward Thomas-Herrera, Mary Zerkel, Kevin Kaempf, Bill Talsma, Ross Middleton, Chloe Perkis
I Hate America! (I Love America): Who Owns Myth, Pop, Money, Race, and Terror in the Land of the Free? was produced by Lucky Pierre and supported by DIY 10:2014 a Live Art Development Agency initiative in collaboration with Platform. Additional funding for the project provided by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York.
