The Museum
of Modern Art MIDTOWN | NEW YORK | USA
OCTOBER 31,
2017-APRIL 01, 2018
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.
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.
11 West
53rd Street , Midtown - New York, NY, USA 10019
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