September 21

Read/watch:

• Regrouping (Lizzie Borden, 1976) [80 minutes]
• Jo Freeman, “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” (1970)
  

• Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen 16, no. 3 (1975)
• Ethan Philbrick, “Groupuscule,” in Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence (Fordham University Press, 2023)
  

Please do some preliminary research (~an hour) on a collective, group space, or group art show from New York in the 1970s and 1980s and prepare a short 5-minute presentation for the class. This can be informal. Give us a little background on what you selected and have us look at one image or object together. See what kinds of primary sources or archival materials you can find. Email me with the name of the group/space you selected, one primary source material (an image, a flyer, a video, a zine, etc.), and any slides you want to use in class. Please send these by Tuesday at 10am.


Possible collectives/spaces:

• Collaborative Projects (Colab)
• The Times Square Show (1980)
  
• The Real Estate Show (1980)
  
• Basement Workshop
  
• The Kitchen
• ABC No Rio
• Fashion Moda
  
• Just Above Midtown (JAM)
  
• Group Material
• 98 Bowery
  
• Alternatives in Retrospect (1981)
  
• The Performance Group / The Wooster Group
  
• Political Art Documentation / Distrubution (PAD/D)
  
• Kamoinge Workshop
  
• Taller Boricua
  
• Heresies Collective
  
• Film-Makers’ Cooperative
  
• Millenium Workshop