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Release Date: August 30, 2006
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1976-2006: A THIRTY YEAR INTROSPECTIVE
as told to art-therapist, Dr. S.M. Freund, MS, PhD

"So, Mr. Galliman, tell us a little of yourself," Dr. Freund says, soothingly.

The fall of 1975, Galligan faced the certainty of moving his Wisconsin Video Theatre from its home in the mid-west. "Where to, was not so certain," says Galligan, "but it was clear that I needed a better term for the various art enterprises that were absorbing my time and energy. I got my start in the sixties as part of Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School after graduating from the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

Johnson had established a far-flung group of artists, and I found myself-exchanging notes and artworks with William Wegman, Bruce Nauman, Lowell Darling, Fred Escher and a host of others. My work took the form of photos, sound-collage, cutups, video, self-published books and pamphlets, and anything else you could stick in an envelope to send via the mail. We had some connections with Conceptual Art, but by the mid-70s, that was kind of passé. There was a very strong narrative component to my work and the subject and format were often social in nature. I decided to call it Post-Conceptual Social Narrative art making."

"Yes, I see," says Dr. Freund, "continue puleze."