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The New York Times Magazine

Visiting Artists | Geoffrey Hendricks

By Johnny Misheff

May 15, 2012

Hendricks, a forerunner of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s, recalled meeting Buczak, a fellow artist, two years before, at a Libra party hosted by the musician Phill Niblock. “I think Brian was the only other queer person there, and we spent a lot of time dancing together. Later, out of the corner of my eye I saw him leaving with his friends. There’d been this kind of electricity between us while we were dancing so I went running after him down Lafayette Street. They were heading down to Lower Manhattan — to the Ocean Club or one of the places that were the in places to go to at that point. I caught up with him and I said, ‘Hey, I don’t even have your phone number.’ So I went along with him and it ended up that Brian came back here with me. I had just moved into this place, and my bed was a mattress on a pile of lumber up in the attic and, well, that’s where we went together, through the night, into the early hours of the morning and it was the beginning of a wonderful relationship.” Read More