Club 57 Film Performance and Art in the East Village

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The East Hamlet of the 1970s and 1980s continues to thrive in the global public'south imagination. Located in the basement of a Polish Church building at 57 St. Marks Identify, Guild 57 (1978–83) began every bit a no-budget venue for music and film exhibitions, and rapidly took pride of place in a constellation of countercultural venues in downtown New York fueled by depression 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 E Village, Guild 57 is said to have influenced nigh every club that came in its wake.

Club 57: Moving picture, Performance, and Art in the Due east Village, 1978–1983 is the commencement major exhibition to fully examine the scene-irresolute, interdisciplinary life of this seminal downtown New York alternative infinite. The exhibition volition tap into the legacy of Gild 57'south founding curatorial staff—movie programmers Susan Hannaford and Tom Scully, exhibition organizer Keith Haring, and performance curator Ann Magnuson—to examine how the convergence of film, video, functioning, art, and curatorship in the club environs of New York in the 1970s and 1980s became a model for a new spirit of interdisciplinary attempt. Responding to the broad range of programming at Club 57, the exhibition volition present their accomplishments across a range of disciplines—from moving-picture show, video, operation, and theater to photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, zines, manner design, and curating. Edifice on extensive enquiry and oral history, the exhibition features many works that have not been exhibited publicly since the 1980s.

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Organized past Ron Magliozzi, Curator, and Sophie Cavoulacos, Assistant Curator, Department of Film; with Ann Magnuson, guest curator.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Generous funding is provided by mediaThe foundation inc.

Boosted back up is provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership contributions are provided by the Kate Due west. Cassidy Foundation, Steven Tisch, Blavatnik Family Foundation, and Ana and Henry Pincus. Major back up is provided past Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), The Junior Assembly of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan, Nion T. McEvoy, Michael S. Ovitz, Karen and Gary Winnick, and the Yuval Brisker Charitable Foundation.

  • Club 57: Film, Operation, and Art in the East Hamlet, 1978-1983 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 184 pages

  • Jubilant Mr. Fashion: A Tribute to Operation Artist Gerard Little

    Sat, Apr 28, 2018, i:30 p.yard.

    MoMA, Floor T2

    Film

    Gerard Little pictured on a flyer for Fashion Horror at Limelight, 1985 (detail). Designed by Albert Crudo
  • Performing Difference: Gender in the 1980s Downtown Scene

    Thu, Mar 22, 2018, one:thirty–half-dozen:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T2

    Lecture/console

    Left: Dany Johnson. c. 1980. Right: Gerard Little, also known as Frankie Lymon's Nephew, also known as Mr. Fashion, Pyramid Club. 1985. Photographs by and courtesy April Palmieri
  • An Evening with Michael Holman

    Mon, Mar 12, 2018, vii:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T2

    Film

    Michael Holman. Still from The Subjective Gaze. 2018. Loop performance. Courtesy of the artist
  • Pictures You Can Dance Ii

    Thu, Mar eight, 2018, 4:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T1

    Performance

    Harvey Wang. Untitled. 1980. Hand-painted 35mm slide. Exhibited in Pictures You Can Dance Too. Courtesy the artist
  • MoMA and Visual AIDS Present Dear, Loss, and Life at Club 57

    Tue, Feb 27, 2018, half dozen:30 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T2

    Film

    Tabboo!, Gerard Little, unknown performer, Jean Hill, and John Sex, 1983. Photo: Ande Whyland. Courtesy the artist
  • PopRally Presents: Finish CLUB 57

    Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 7:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T2

    Party

    Image courtesy Jon Campolo
  • Drew Straub's Prove and Tell

    Thu, Feb xv, 2018, 4:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T1

    Functioning

    Kenny Scharf. Boy From the City. 1980. Video (color, sound), 18:30 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Inside Club 57: A Chat with Artist Jennifer Ley

    Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 1:thirty p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T1

    Gallery experience

    Jennifer Ley. She Doesn't Cry Anymore over Faded Bouquets. 1979. Color xerox
  • Celebrating the Downtown Musicals of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman: A One-Night-Only Live Upshot

    Mon, February 12, 2018, 7:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T2

    Film

    Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman's original production Livin' Dolls at Club 57, 1981. Photograph by M. Henry Jones, detail from a 3-D stereo slide
  • Peter Nolan Smith: An Due east Village Diary

    Thu, February 8, 2018, iv:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T1

    Functioning

    The Rule of Mr. Klaus #19, 1980. Photograph by Anthony Scibelli, from a series for a photo-roman written by Peter Nolan Smith (pictured). Courtesy the artists
  • Three Blackness Bungalows: Joe Lewis, Marion Cowings, and David Wells

    Thu, Jan 25, 2018, four:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Flooring T1

    Performance

    Lewis, Eastman, and Lewis at Inroads, c. 1979. Photograph courtesy Joe Lewis
  • Urban Women: Marcus Leatherdale and Claudia Summers

    Mon, Dec eighteen, 2017, 4:00 p.m.

    MoMA, Floor T1

    Gallery feel

    Marcus Leatherdale. Claudia Summers from the series Urban Women. 1980. Courtesy the artist
  • An Evening with Kestutis Nakas

    Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 7:00 p.thousand.

    MoMA, Floor T2

    Motion-picture show

    Kestutis Nakas. Your Program of Programs. 1982–83. Video. Purchase from the artist
  • Super8 Films by Edit DeAk

    Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:00 p.1000.

    MoMA, Floor T1

    Gallery experience

    Still from Edit DeAk's Beyond Genre film cycle. c. 1977. Courtesy of Patrick Fox, with thanks to the estate of Edit DeAk
  • Alternative '80s: Club 57 and New York's Downtown Scene

    Sun, Nov v, 2017, 12:00–half dozen:00 p.m.

    3 more by

    MoMA PS1

    Performance

    Alternative '80s: Club 57 and New York's Downtown Scene on November 5, 2017. Presented at MoMA PS1 as part of VW Sunday Sessions 2017-2018. Photograph: Derek Schultz
  • Member Gallery Talk: Society 57: Picture, Performance, and Fine art in the Eastward Village, 1978–1983

    Wed, Nov 1, 2017, 12:thirty p.g.

    MoMA

    Gallery experience, for members

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Source: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3824

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