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Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980
In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative spaces of the city’s SoHo district, often for an audience comprising a handful of fellow artists, this catalogue makes newly visible a critical period in the development of performance art.

Rituals of Rented Island examines the disparate yet related practices of twenty artists, including Stuart Sherman; collaborators Yvonne Rainer and Babette Mangotle; Julia Heyward; Jill Kroesen; Richard Foreman; Squat Theatre; composer-musician John Zorn; and legendary playwright and filmmaker Jack Smith; among others. With an array of previously unpublished images, including installation photographs, scripts, handwritten notes, and other ephemera, drawn from the artists’ own archives, this volume illuminates the eccentric singularities of the performance art of this era and its relevance today.



Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(10/31/13–02/02/14)

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Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980
In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative spaces of the city’s SoHo district, often for an audience comprising a handful of fellow artists, this catalogue makes newly visible a critical period in the development of performance art.

Rituals of Rented Island examines the disparate yet related practices of twenty artists, including Stuart Sherman; collaborators Yvonne Rainer and Babette Mangotle; Julia Heyward; Jill Kroesen; Richard Foreman; Squat Theatre; composer-musician John Zorn; and legendary playwright and filmmaker Jack Smith; among others. With an array of previously unpublished images, including installation photographs, scripts, handwritten notes, and other ephemera, drawn from the artists’ own archives, this volume illuminates the eccentric singularities of the performance art of this era and its relevance today.



Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(10/31/13–02/02/14)

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Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980

Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980

Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980

Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama-Manhattan, 1970-1980

Overview

In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative spaces of the city’s SoHo district, often for an audience comprising a handful of fellow artists, this catalogue makes newly visible a critical period in the development of performance art.

Rituals of Rented Island examines the disparate yet related practices of twenty artists, including Stuart Sherman; collaborators Yvonne Rainer and Babette Mangotle; Julia Heyward; Jill Kroesen; Richard Foreman; Squat Theatre; composer-musician John Zorn; and legendary playwright and filmmaker Jack Smith; among others. With an array of previously unpublished images, including installation photographs, scripts, handwritten notes, and other ephemera, drawn from the artists’ own archives, this volume illuminates the eccentric singularities of the performance art of this era and its relevance today.



Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(10/31/13–02/02/14)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300195866
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 12.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jay Sanders is curator and curator of performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. J. Hoberman is an independent writer and critic.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

"Like Canyons and Rivers": Performance for Its Own Sake J. Hoberman 9

Map of Key Performance Venues in Lower Manhattan 25

Love Is an Object Jay Sanders 27

Vito Acconci 42

Laurie Anderson 46

Jared Bark 50

Ericka Beckman 56

Ralston Farina 60

Richard Foreman/Ontological-Hysteric Theater 66

Julia Heyward 72

Ken Jacobs Apparition Theater of New York 76

Mike Kelley 80

Kipper Kids 84

Jill Kroesen 88

Sylvia Palacios Whitman 94

Yvonne Rainer and Babette Mangolte 100

Stuart Sherman 104

Theodora Skipitares 108

Jack Smith 112

Michael Smith 118

Squat Theatre 124

Robert Wilson/Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds 128

John Zorn/Theatre of Musical Optics 132

Rituals: A Chronology 138

Acknowledgments 141

Photograph and Reproduction Credits 144

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