Thursday, April 7, 2011
Roof Piece by Trisha Brown, 1973, placed dancers on Manhattan’s skyline, inviting them to move among the rooftop landscape of water tanks, chimneys and fire escapes above the streets of SoHo. From the exhibition: Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s, at the Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2, 2 March-22 May. “New York in the 70s was Paris in the 20s,” Anderson has said. “We often worked on each other’s pieces and boundaries between art forms were loose.” The artists lived close to each other, illegally occupying the disused lofts. “There was a confluence of ideas,” says the exhibition curator, Lydia Yee, “and everybody seemed to go out with everybody else at some point.” Guardian

Roof Piece by Trisha Brown, 1973, placed dancers on Manhattan’s skyline, inviting them to move among the rooftop landscape of water tanks, chimneys and fire escapes above the streets of SoHo. From the exhibition: Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s, at the Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2, 2 March-22 May.

“New York in the 70s was Paris in the 20s,” Anderson has said. “We often worked on each other’s pieces and boundaries between art forms were loose.” The artists lived close to each other, illegally occupying the disused lofts.

“There was a confluence of ideas,” says the exhibition curator, Lydia Yee, “and everybody seemed to go out with everybody else at some point.”

Guardian

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