We were motivated to create our own digital archive when New York University's Fales Library offered to archive documentation on one of Thieves Theatre's paratheatrical productions. Nick and Gabriele had erected a replica of a Lakota tipi in a Manhattan shantytown (known as The Hill) to commemorate the centenary of the Wounded Knee Massacre and then lived in it from 1990 to 1993.

For the past year and more, ICL has been digitizing documents from its early history -- from its inception in Chicago as Thieves Theatre in 1981, to its reimagining into New-York-based International Culture Lab in 2007. Recently we have teamed with producer Untamed Network to bring this early history to life in a podcast...

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