Catalog of an exhibition held October 31, 2017-April 1, 2018. "Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983 is the first major exhibition to fully examine the scene-changing, interdisciplinary life of this seminal downtown New York alternative space. The exhibition will tap into the legacy of Club 57's founding curatorial staff--film programmers Susan Hannaford and Tom Scully, exhibition organizer Keith Haring, and performance curator Ann Magnuson--to examine how the convergence of film, video, performance, art, and curatorship in the club environment of New York in the 1970s and 1980s became a model for a new spirit of interdisciplinary endeavor. Responding to the broad range of programming at Club 57, the exhibition will present their accomplishments across a range of disciplines--from film, video, performance, and theater to photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, zines, fashion design, and curating. Building on extensive research and oral history, the exhibition features many works that have not been exhibited publicly since the 1980s"--Museum of Modern Art website (viewed on October 20, 2017). Includes a videography (pages 177-180) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Acknowledgments / Ron Magliozzi and Sophie Cavoulacos -- Art is what you make it: Club 57 and the downtown scene / Ron Magliozzi -- Downtown for downtown / Sophie Cavoulacos -- Plates -- "Come and yel 'Marcello'": making movies at Club 57 / J. Hoberman -- Acts of live art: performance at Club 57 / Jenny Schlenzka -- Plates -- Club 57 and the short, happy life of the East Village art scene / Laura Hoptman -- Plates -- Dancing to pictures / Lucy Gallun -- It takes as East Village / Ann Magnuson -- Club 57 chronology -- You are one of us now: a Club 57 film and videography.
Summary:
"The East Village of the 1970s and 1980s continues to thrive in the global public's imagination. Located in the basement of a Polish Church at 57 St. Marks Place, Club 57 (1978-83) began as a no-budget venue for music and film exhibitions, and quickly took pride of place in a constellation of countercultural venues in downtown New York fueled by low rents, the Reagan presidency, and the desire to experiment with new modes of art, performance, fashion, music, and exhibition. A center of creative activity in the East Village, Club 57 is said to have influenced virtually every club that came in its wake"--Museum of Modern Art website (viewed on October 20, 2017).
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