Downtown Pix exhibit & Nightclubbing showing

I can't believe it's been 4 years since the NYU/Fales Library Downtown Show at the Grey Art Gallery. Next Tuesday, Jan. 12, running through April 3, the same folks will be presenting Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961–1991 at the same location.

From the press release: "Downtown Pix focuses on the intergenerational dialogues and cross-disciplinary resonances that emerge from the archives’ sprawling logic. Photographs of Richard Hell’s concerts at CBGB, Richard Foreman’s experimental plays with the Ontological-Hysteric Theater company, Mabou Mines’s multimedia performances, the happenings at Judson Church, including Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy performance, and the installations at Creative Time’s Art on the Beach seriesmark explosive intersections of punk rock, art, dance, and drama. Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Gallery notes: “The photographs not only document seminal cultural practices, but also survey the vast ecology of artistic subcultures that flourished Downtown.”

Artists include: Creative Time, Robert Alexander, Jimmy De Sana, Mabou Mines, Fred W. McDarrah, Richard Foreman, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and David Wojnarowicz.

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212/998-6780,
http://www.nyu.edu/greyart

Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 11am–6 pm
Open Late Wednesday: 11 am–8 pm
Saturday: 11 am­­–5 pm
Sunday, Monday and major holidays: Closed
Admission: Suggested donation: $3; NYU students, faculty, and staff: free of charge

Of special note: Included as part of this exhibit, there will be a showing of some of the Nightclubbing films from Pat Ivers & Emily Armstrong. These films of punk, new wave & post punk performances in the New York clubs of the mid 70's-early 80's are NOT to be missed!

This year's presentation of Nightclubbing will be made up of two portions - Modern Music and the Dead Boys Live at CBGB.

Modern Music - Modern Music showcases a range of cutting edge music that exemplifies the phenomenon that was punk, including no-wave, art rock, new wave, jazz-fusion and all their combinations. The program features performances by Talking Heads, Lounge Lizards, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Contortions, Suicide, John Cale, and Sun Ra. Highlights: rare footage of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Contortions at the Paradise Garage in 1979 and a film noir-like performance by the Lounge Lizards at CBGB’s, videotaped in 1977.

Dead Boys Live at CBGB’s - If you never experienced a live performance by the legendary punk group the Dead Boys this is as close as you’ll ever get to the real thing. The second program is a complete Dead Boys concert recorded in 1977 at CBGB’s. Including performances of “Caught with the Meat in Your Mouth” and “Sonic Reducer,” this is American Punk as it truly was: raw, honest and urgent.

Visit the Nightclubbing official site: gonightclubbing.com

Friday, March 19, 7:00 pm
Nightclubbing: The Punk Rock Archives
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street, Room 200

Previous related posts:
- The Downtown Show
- Nightclubbing