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New YorkA visit in the Lower http://www.tenement.org/ East Side Tenement Museum brought back the history of the area in question: 1848 after the failed revolution in Germany (and other European countries) political immigrants comes to the Lower Eastside and the area becomes the largest German speaking settlement after Vienna and Berlin in 1850/60s. Kleindeuschland = between division and 14th street, the east river and the bowery. The rent was often 40%-60% of the immigrants income. The lower eastside was for most people a transitional stage, successful German immigrants later moved uptown to Yorkville (86th street east) The depression in the 1930s brought new building laws and fire regulations - wooden staircases were no longer allowed - Since owners did not find it worthwhile to invest larger sums in their rotten houses the Lower Eastside becomes almost totally deserted - until the 1980s when a new boom seemed to happen! (See txt in Berlins http://www.berliner-mieterverein.de/magazin/online/mm0404/hauptmm.htm?http://www.berliner-mieterverein.de/magazin/online/mm0404/040404b.htm Mieter Magazin) With Alan Moore we talked about some other aspects and developments: Fire was not only used for "redlining" i.e. arson in order to build new houses with insurance money. But FIRE became also the targeted clientele to live in the LES: "f.i.re" = financial, insurance and real estate workers, later with an additional "s" for workers in the spectacle industry = fires. In addition empty units of public housing were being privatised. We know the cultural boom in the East Village in the 80s. Art in America, vol. 72, no. 6 (Summer 1984), tries to stoke the fire; Walter Robinson and Carlo Mc Cormick promoted the East Village, especially in "Slouching Toward Avenue D", p. 135. and CRAIG OWENS shoots against the hype in his "Commentary: The Problem with Puerilism" p. 162-163. Still a pleasure and fresh to read is the raging critique by Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan : FineArtGentrification . This kind of critique becomes only extended by the series of writing conduced by Davies Ford about the YBA scene in Britain. The fact that certain efforts to intentionally use culture as a motor for gentrification did not happen, as it did in Berlin (and/or unintentionally in Bergen) does not proof this critique wrong. Also compare BCGenesis the plan?, that Antek got it straight from some real estate developers found use in http://www.societyofcontrol.com/whitecube/gen_start.htm Bernadette Corporations Piece in the White Cube Bergen. But lets say this kind of critique of this kind of manoeuvres is all to well known, does it still help or should we rather have a look at the art that was produced, hyped and sold under these circumstances, were fantasy and freedom of the arts matched those of the developers and their customers? Was it because of the critique that started in the mid 80s and more and more galleries started to move out of the East Village back to SOHO. Or was it because the rents went up in the Village and its cheaper to go back to SOHO? Or was it that the marked for fantasy and art brute was saturised? Anyway, in 1988 most of the galleries are gone. Meanwhile also two things had happened: The Battery Park Complex was being developed and initially the building corporations had to include low income housing. But in order to attract the FIRES and to avoid the unpleasant mixing of high&low income the building corporations offered money to the City of New York in order to build low income housing elsewhere. Meanwhile this money has evaporated in the city council... Back in the village and against the politics of the real estate developers squatting had started in the Lower East Side and the Tompkins Square becomes the very heart of fierce fighting, squatting and messing around. However, now the squatters seemed to be using the art and open gallery spaces in order to themselves a good image. Meanwhile the fights have calmed down and the neighbourhood becomes the playground for increasingly younger increasingly prosperous college kids (see Rev Jens? video, [Whitney le Blanc - a former NYU student, who in order to payback her student loans, turns to "hooking" on campus] see Mieter Magazin) and NYU uses the East Village art&amusement to promote itself as a cool campus. The university moves more and more of its classrooms and dorms further into the village - After the attack on the WTC artists were asked to propose projects in order to develop the South of Manhattan again. There should have been an exhibit of all the proposals, but this show never happened. Now the artists are squeezed out, the projects are replaced by professional architects and designers. In respect to the above questions Alan Moore would ask : Who are artists? And how do they survive? For the East Village Exhibition at the New Museum he suggests to compile an annotated bibliography of all LES literature. a) for the catalogue b) as a website /swiki) and an ongoing thing where everybody can contribute Right now Allan works on a book about the squatters and their resistance in the LES. (1987-1992) As interesting projects he highlights the Henry Street Settlement, http://www.henrystreet.org like Louis Abraham’s, mapping the neighbourhood, gardens architecture. Also artist Michael Smiths staged event in the new museum where he advertised the space as a loft space and tried to rent it. (Video) Further the Lower Eastside Biography Project: an ongoing project of learning and archiving in order to create and archive oral history from the LES (e.g. Taylor mead) // This could be shown together with Art Club 2000 1970s videos MORE LINKS: Penny Arcade aka Susana Ventura http://www.pennyarcade.com/bio.html more : http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/les_bios.html promo video : http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/les_bios.html#les http://www.konscious.com/films/shorts/lesbio/mov_02b.ram http://spoonfilm.com/LesBio_us.htm http://www.franklinfurnace.org/thismonth/lower_east_side011212.html other links: http://culturalpolicy.org/ mike Davis http://www.frontlist.com/detail/1565847652 http://www.david.enigmati.ca/sustrans/davis/ the lower east side tenement museum http://www.tenement.org/ --- WORKS AVAILABLE AT THE PAT HEARN COLLECTION: Phillip Taaffe & William Burroughs (millipede) Phillip Taaffe : Chi Chi? 066 Phillip Taaffe & Thiery Cheverny (ex husband of Pat) 253 Richard Prince 039 Alan Rupersberg 145 (Poster its not art) Amy Morgana 031 Milan Kunc (Pat) 1016-1036 Jutta Koether (after Larry Clarke) 001 Tishan Hue 127 Claudia Hart 112-119 Peter Fend (Rhode Island) Ross Bleckner (Bird for Pat) Nina Childress (Pat & Chi Chi?) Donald Baechler (a lot) Condo (a lot and the one we showed at PH) --- KATALOG TEXTS PROPOSALS Katrin Pesch: Alan Moore: bibliography of East Village related books /or/ specially on the Lower East Side /or/ more general on art districts in new York /or/ squatting in the East Village (end of 80s) John Miller: text in conjunction with his photo work of the love parade Rainald Goetz: When would be the deadline for the catalogue? Reprint: Rosalyn Deutsche - The fine art of gentrification --> http://www.abcnorio.org/about/history/fine_art.html Mike Davis: death cities / THE FLAMES OF NEW YORK Craig Owens, "Commentary: The Problem with Puerilism", in: Art in America, Etwa fünfzehn Jahre nach Owens' Beschreibung des East Village als "Simulakrum der Boheme" und "Replika" des Markts für zeitgenössische Kunst könnte man nun den Ausstellungsräumen in Chelsea Ambitionen auf die Legitimationsmacht des Museums zuschreiben. --- DISPLAY: retreat behind the walls all over screen dots (rasterpunke) as from wmf/artclub2000 fire extinguisher filled with paint for large scale mess kiosk: outside fanzines / inside videos / text or drawings as wallpaper remake the rats of Christine Rupp wandzeitung a suggestion by Alan Moore: an echo to Dan grahams cafe -> facades of starbucks and a hippy cafe ) other videos: gangs of new York - scorsese Christiane f - Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - in engl Synchronisation ---
Rev Jen is still doing her Wednesdays at http://revjen.com/antislam/index.html Collective Unconscious. She collaborates with Nick Zedd? on a format, ELECTRA ELF, now at Episode Four, GREAT SHRUNKEN EXPECTATIONS  In GREAT SHRUNKEN EXPECTATIONS, Electra Elf is attacked by winged demons and thrust into an interdimensional vortex where, stripped of her superpowers she is subjected to a deprogramming by a psychoanalytic clown named Pantaloon. Featuring computer animation by Mark Slanger, video feedback by Nick Zedd & Victor Pommier and original music by Cloud Tiger, Wendy Toga and jon vomit. The next episode will be about real estate in the Lower East Side. There are also video footage of Rev Jen's Puppet Theatre from the book. More Videos by http://www.nickzedd.com Nick Zedd http://www.hi-beam.net/mkr/nz/nz-bio.html#Filmography James Fuentes talks about his collaboration with Alfredo Martinez, who forged 2 basquiat paintings and sold. The FBI caught him, he was imprisoned. He did a series of drawings in prison, he also was on hunger strike for a while. He is a weapon specialist... We talk about the return of art brute in New York. James reckons that folk art had more space in the art of the 80s. He mentions http://www.joecoleman.com/ Joe Coleman, who was back then making performances biting heads off of living mice, or having explosives attached to his chest and setting them off in an unpredictable moment. Today he would be arrested as a suicide bomber. He is still around as a painter, check it out: |
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