In this work for Antenna Theater, audience members shackled in chains and wearing headphones are guided through a Neo-Constructivist mock-up of the notorious federal penitentiary by the voices of a former Alcatraz inmate and a former guard.

Alcatraz (1985)

Return with us now to 1984.  The Reagan administration was running a secret war in Central America.  The expensively refitted battleship New Jersey was bombarding Lebanon with projectiles so large the gunners called them “Volkswagens.” The Soviets had responded to the President’s "Star Wars" initiative by threatening to shift their nuclear arsenal to “launch on warning."  And the Reagan reelection campaign was declaring, “America’s back.”

Eldorado (1984)

As they said in the Reagan administration, "deficits don't matter."  This second episode of "Dance on Warning" was adapted from a comic strip by Dan O'Neill.

The Little Heroes (1984)

Long before it was the home of Burning Man, Gerlach, Nevada, was just a little railroad town on the Black Rock Desert.  And you know how little towns are.

Fifty Miles Out of Gerlach (1983)

In 1988, I had the privilege of hosting All Things Considered for a couple of weekends.  Of course I wanted to interview my friends.

Negativland (1988)

This meditation on cars, concrete, and maybe even Modernism itself appeared on the first edition of public radio's "Living on Earth."

John Rieger

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