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Of All The People In All The World: USA

World Financial Center
Under The Radar Festival, New York, USA
9 - 20 January 2008

Alison Carney, Amanda Hadingue, Jake Oldershaw, Karen Stafford, Craig Stephens, James Yarker.
With: Natasha Giliberti and Adam Walck



Presented as part of the Under the Radar Festival in the World Financial Center, this was Stan’s Cafe’s first visit to New York City. The venue, which houses the world headquarters of international businesses such as American Express, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones and Deloitte, gave the show an interesting context and perhaps its smartest dressed audience (which is not to criticise the sartorial tastes of others). Statistics which feature in many shows such as the people killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, took on a new significance here when those sites could be viewed through the Financial Center windows.

The show received a steady flow of visitors including, much to the excitement of a certain cross section of the performance team, Lou Reed. We also received some of our more interesting comments in the Comments Book including "Get a job" and "But is it art?" Discuss.

Photo: Karen Stafford