“We already owned a two-track audiotape recorder, which allowed delays and speed changes. We immediately proceeded to process and manipulate videotape along the same principles we had applied to audiotape. During the same period, we were taking the portable video equipment to New York’s cultural playgrounds: WBAI Free Music Store, Judson Church, La Mama, Automation House, the Village Vanguard, Fillmore East, Blue Dom, Kansas City Steakhouse, etc. After such outings, everyone would gather in our loft to look at the instant playback – something that most people at that time had never experienced before. Even the work ‘video’ was a brand-new addition to the vocabulary. By 1971 there was so much traffic our loft that, when a friend told us he had found a large space in an abandoned kitchen in the old Broadway Central Hotel, we were ready. The space was intended to serve the artists, not the audience. We therefore named it The Kitchen-LATL (Live Audience Test Laboratory).”