Editing Angus MacLise (section)

==Dreamweapon==
In May 2011 a major retrospective exhibit ''Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise (1938–1979)'' was mounted by the Boo-Hooray Gallery in Chelsea, New York City. The exhibit features the contents of a recently discovered suitcase containing photographs, notes, poetry, and 100 reels of music. In addition to the gallery exhibit, there are sound installations at Boo-Hooray's second location in Chinatown and film screenings at the Anthology Archives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://flavorwire.com/177937/the-life-and-art-of-the-velvet-undergrounds-first-drummer|publisher=Flavorwire|author=Marina Galperina|date=May 9, 2011|title=The Life and Art of the Velvet Underground's First Drummer|access-date=2011-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/music/angus-maclise-of-velvet-underground-in-dreamweapon.html|title=The Velvet Unknown, Now Emerging|author=BEN SISARIO|date=May 9, 2011|work=New York Times|access-date=2011-05-10| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110509074132/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/music/angus-maclise-of-velvet-underground-in-dreamweapon.html| archive-date=May 9, 2011| url-status= live}}</ref>

In 1965, a work by MacLise titled ''Rites of the Dream Weapon'' was included in the New Cinema Festival (also known as the Expanded Cinema Festival), an extensive series of multimedia productions in New York presented by [[Jonas Mekas]] and featuring the work of such artists as [[Robert Rauschenberg]] and [[Claes Oldenburg]]. Mekas was impressed with MacLise, writing in the ''[[The Village Voice|Village Voice]]'', "The first three programs of the New Cinema Festival – the work of Angus McLise [sic], [[Nam June Paik]], and Jerry Joffen [sic] – dissolved the edges of this art called cinema into a frontiersland mystery."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Comenas|first1=Gary|title=Expanded Cinema?|url=http://www.warholstars.org/expanded_cinema.html|website=warholstars.org|access-date=31 October 2014}}</ref> MacLise's entry also made a lasting impression on the playwright [[Richard Foreman]], who praised it years later in an interview.<ref>{{cite book | title = Richard Foreman and the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre | date = 1981 | last1 = Davy | first1 = Kate | publisher = UMI Research Press | isbn = 978-0835712200 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LBNaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Cinema+Festival+vividly%22}}</ref> According to Sterling Morrison, Andy Warhol's multimedia shows (Andy Warhol Uptight and the [[Exploding Plastic Inevitable]]) were based on similar works by MacLise and Heliczer, which they called "[[Happening|ritual happenings]]."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Landemaine|first1=Olivier|title=The Velvet Underground Live performances and rehearsals|url=http://olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/live/1965-66/perf6566.html|website=olivier.landemaine.free.fr|access-date=1 November 2014}} See Morrison quote.</ref>