This groundbreaking book--part exhibition
catalogue, part cultural history--chronicles alternative
art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed
from an exhibition of the same name at Exit Art,
Alternative Histories documents more than 130
alternative spaces, groups, and projects, and the
significant contributions these organizations have made
to the aesthetic and social fabric of New York City.
Alternative art spaces offer sites for experimentation
for artists to innovate, perform, and exhibit outside
the commercial gallery-and-museum circuit. In New York
City, the development of alternative spaces was almost
synonymous with the rise of the contemporary art scene.
Beginning in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was within a
network of alternative sites--including 112 Greene
Street, The Kitchen, P.S.1, FOOD, and many others--that
the work of young artists like Yvonne Rainer, Vito
Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, David
Wojnarowicz, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Martin Wong,
Jimmie Durham, and dozens of other now familiar names
first circulated. Through interviews, photographs,
essays, and archival material, Alternative Histories
tells the story of such famous sites and organizations
as Judson Memorial Church, Anthology Film Archives,
A.I.R. Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Franklin Furnace,
and Eyebeam, as well as many less well-known sites and
organizations. Essays by the exhibition curators and
scholars, and excerpts of interviews with alternative
space founders and staff, provide cultural and
historical context. ContributorsJacki Apple, Papo Colo,
Jeanette Ingberman, Melissa Rachleff, Lauren Rosati,
Mary Anne Staniszewski, Herb Tam IntervieweesSteve
Cannon, Rhys Chatham, Peter Cramer and Jack Waters,
Carol Goodden, Alanna Heiss, Bob Lee, Joe Lewis, Inverna
Lockpez, Ann Philbin, Anne Sherwood Pundyk and Karen
Yama, Irving Sandler, Adam Simon, Martha Wilson
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