DOWNTOWN NEW YORK, CIRCA 1970
DOWNTOWN NEW YORK, CIRCA 1970
535 W. 22nd Street, New York
DOWNTOWN NEW YORK, CIRCA 1970
535 W. 22nd Street, New York
DOWNTOWN NEW YORK, CIRCA 1970
535 W. 22nd Street, New York
Works
Food documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting-ground and ongoing project for the emergent downtown artists' community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.
Participation represents the Vasulka's experience of the New York downtown scene in the late 1960s and early '70s. In this fascinating portrait of wildly creative people, places and times, the artists use the early Portapak video system to document, among others, Don Cherry performing in Washington Square, Warhol Superstars on stage, and Jimi Hendrix in concert. This pioneering video document is a free-form time capsule of an era.
This 1973 black-and-white film is a rediscovered classic. Performing with a "cast" that includes Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonas choreographs a theater of space, movement, and sound, with the urban landscape of New York in a featured role. Jonas creates a highly original if enigmatic theatrical...
Suite 212
Nam June Paik. In collaboration with Douglas Davis, Jud Yalkut, and Shigeko Kubota.
1975, re-edited 1977, 30:23 min, color, sound
Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a fragmented tour of the city. Opening with the 1972 work The Selling of New York, a series of short segments designed for WNET's late-night television...
This video journal is an informal time capsule of the downtown cultural and artistic milieu in New York. In Part 1, Clarke is an active voice behind the camera as she documents a party given by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with guests that include Andy Warhol and Jack Nicholson. In Parts 2 & 3, Arthur C. Clarke performs a celestial experiment with a video camera on the roof of the Chelsea Hotel, while influential theologian Alan Watts creates "an exercise in Zen."
