TV220 Episode 9 Return to Providence

Contents include footage of a man playing musical instruments that is edited so it looks like three people playing at once (00:42); an edited video of art installation process (2:57); an interview with Jonathan Thomas by Umberto Crenca about playing music on junk objects and drumming (7:35); an excerpt from "Clit Notes" by performance artist Holly Hughes (10:42); an interview with Holly Hughes, who was one of the four artists awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts that Senator Jesse Helms denied in the famous 1990s debates about funding for the arts, particularly controversial art and what Hughes calls "art about the body" (11:37); footage from the 1997 AS220 Fool's Ball (21:53).
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