11/07: First meeting (Greenwich village)

It’s always fun to say “Epithelium began in a grungy little coffee shop in Greenwich village.” Yeah. We were real artists, Al and I… But it began in a Brooklyn bar, one week before the first meeting. Al and I downed a couple lagers, discussing the freaks on the Internet.

Online communities: breeding grounds for the socially inept, freakish, and alienated. We both liked websites. That’s how this whole thing started…

So we constructed the premise of the project at our first meeting. We wanted to perform a website. Online users would tell their stories. We would perform what they said. From the first meeting, the project's construction was rigorous. We would create a website, then strictly perform what was on the website. Nothing else. Every single word of the show was lifted from www.epithelium.org. That was the plan. Seems simple enough, right? HAH.