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EXIT HISTORY:
Samuel Beckett: The Media Work
1/27/1990 - 2/18/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo, Jeanette Ingberman, and Jordi Torrent
Special Event: A three-week presentation that focused
on Samuel Beckett's work for media including film,
television, and radio. Internationally known for
his novels and stage plays, Beckett's work for radio
and television remain an unknown part of his output,
especially in the United States. Most of the program
was American premieres of the work, which was originally
produced in Great Britain and West Germany, including
many pieces personally directed or supervised by
Samuel Beckett. After their original broadcast these
productions had only on rare occasions been publicly
presented. This presentation included daily screenings
of the radio plays and teleplays, and broadcast of
the radio plays on WNYC-FM.
Illegal America
3/3/1990 - 4/21/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Vito Acconci, Gempei Akasegawa, Louis Aragon,
Art Workers Coalition, Gunther Brus, Chris Burden,
Gordon Matta Clark, Papo Colo, DIAS, Bogomir Ecker,
William Farley, John Fekner, Guerilla Art Action
Group (GAAG, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, John Giorno,
David Hammons, Abbie Hoffman, Tehching Hsieh, Jay
Jaroslov,
Komar & Melamid, George Maciunas, Ann Messner,
Richard Mock / Cesar Chavez, Peter Monnig, Charlotte
Moorman, Charlotte Moorman, Paulette Nenner, Dennis
Oppenheim, People's Flag Show, Real Estate Show,
Carolee Schneemann, Dread Scott, Jack Smith, Krzysztof
Wodiczko.
Exhibition: This historical show examined artists'
work, 1930 to 1990, from the United States, Europe
and Japan who in the process of making their work
came into conflict with the law, challenging issues
of legality and censorship. The show included photo-documentation
of the work with an artist statement and extensive
written documentation of each incident, many of which
continued as legal cases.
Cecilia Vicuna: Precarious
4/28/1990 - 5/26/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: Sculptor, performance artist and poet,
Cecilia Vicuña created a new installation
dealing with issues of culture and environment. Her
art examines the changing environment of North and
South America through found objects, both natural
and man-made, urban and rural, to create sculptural
works. During the course of the exhibition, Vicuña
created temporary installations at unspecified locations
in the streets of New York.
Publication: Catalog documenting her installation
and past outdoor works and performances in North
and South America. Essays by art historian Lucy R.
Lippard and poet Eliot Weinberger.
Internal Exile: New Films and Videos from Chile
5/11/1990 - 5/12/1990
Curator(s): Coco Fusco and Third World Newsreel
Artists: Leopoldo Correa, Nestor Olhagaray, Marcela
Poch, Francisco Arevalo, Pablo Lavin, Juan Downey,
Gonzalo Justiniano.
Video Program: This program was the first exhibition
of media art produced by directors living and working
inside Pinochet's Chile to come to the United States.
The program featured fiction films and experimental
video that examined the long-term psychological and
social impact of the seventeen-year dictatorship
that ended in 1990. Internal Exile highlighted the
Chilean cultural resurgence of the 1980s that prefigured
into the country's transition to democracy that year.
Presented by The Museum of Modern Art and Exit Art.
Tantrum
6/1/1990 - 6/1/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Jimmie Durham, Suzan-Lori Parks & Philip
Perkis, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Elizabeth Streb/Ringside,
Gretchen Langheld & House Afire, David Linton,
Jane Scarpantoni & Max Nagl and Reno
Exhibition: Tantrum - where performance forces collide,
a collaborative night of music, dance, performance
and non-conformity. The night created a context for
the eclectic group of artists by exploring how their
work redefines the boundaries of their mediums.
Jacques Roch: Paintings & Works on Paper 1980-1990
6/9/1990 - 7/1/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: An overview of this French-American
painter, whose canvases combine both abstract and
figurative images to create his own language that
redefines the influences of French and American traditions
in painting, transformed and combined with influences
of his cartoon characters drawings that are often
applied to the canvases.
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds: Claim Your Color
9/8/1990 - 9/30/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: The first comprehensive survey exhibition
of Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds that brought together
his work from different media - paintings, drawings,
and public installations. His abstract paintings
done between 1979 and 1989 and his "language
drawings" are based on relationships with the
natural world, drawing ties between nature and culture.
In their form and content, these works challenge
the ambivalent language of racial stereotypes. His
paintings combine a "mapping" of Native
American symbols and representations of the earth
and nature. His language drawings address the question
of identity, culture and survival of the natural
world. Together they draw viewer’s attention
to dominant attitudes towards North American peoples
and to the material conditions in which we exist.
His site-specific public work often brings attention
to the geographic and cultural identity of Indian
tribes from the area.
Publication: Essays by Lowery Stokes Sims, Jean
Fisher and Papo Colo, texts by Edgar Heap of Birds,
32 pages, 2 color and 18 B&W reproductions,
a complete biography and bibliography.
Travel: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, San
Jose Museum of Art, CA
Adrian Piper: Why Guess?
10/13/1990 - 11/3/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: Adrian Piper has made her art a long-standing
commitment to confronting prejudice in America in
its many forms: sexual, racial, ethnic. Her art uses
critical strategies and analytic philosophy in a
conceptual manner to shift the way that we view ourselves
in a society where prejudices are still being perpetuated.
This exhibition included the Vanilla Nightmares series
(1986-90), an ongoing series of drawings on newspaper
pages from The New York Times and a recent series
of works combining photo collages and text. Both
series used appropriated images from the media to
examine the overt and subliminal racism pervasive
in our society.
Publication: Pretend, an artist book
by Adrian Piper, is a 24-page portfolio of loose
sheets that includes 17 photographic images some
of which include words, an essay by art historian
and cultural critic Mary Anne Staniszewski and a
text by the artist.
Film Modernism and its Discontents: A Perspective
From Paris
11/7/1990 - 11/10/1990
Curator(s): Keith Sanborn
Artists: Dziga Vertov, Jean-Isidore Isou, Luis Bunuel,
Rene Clair, Maurice Lemaitre, Alain Resnais, Bruce
Connor, Jens Jorgen Thorsen, Gil Wolman, Rene Vienet.
Film Program: This historical program of films from
the Lettristes, the Lettristes International, and
the Situationist International presented rarely seen
cinematic works in the context of their film antecedents
and related film work produced during the French,
German, and Russian avant-garde cinema history.
In the post-war period in Paris, the Lettristes,
the Lettriste International, and the Situationist
International developed a critique of everyday
life lived in the shadow of the media: a sustained
interrogation of the role of cultural production
in post-war western consumer culture. Through its
relentless analysis and critique, the multi- media
work of the SI raised issues and proposed responses
that invigorated the creative landscape of the
late 50s and early 60s, played a catalytic role
in the uprisings of May '68 and remarkably, remain
to this day central to the debates in contemporary
art.
David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame Works: 1979-1989
11/17/1990 - 1/19/1990
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: Tongues of Flame was the first comprehensive
exhibition of this multi-disciplinary artist's work.
A retrospective exhibition containing sixty-one works
from 1978 to 1990, David Wojnarowicz's controversial
imagery was expressed through painting, collage,
sculpture, photography, installation, and prose,
challenging oppressive socio-political contingents,
and addressing societal and sexual taboos.
In an honest and sincere manner, Wojnarowicz’s
art and writing explored the myriad problems of contemporary
society: our loss of contact with the natural environment,
a pervasive lack of spirituality, the AIDS epidemic,
homophobia, and our government's lack of tolerance
for racial, sexual and economic minorities. Wojnarowicz
confronted all of these issues in powerful, insightful,
and poetic works of art and writing.
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