Robert Carrithers

MoMA: Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983

For those that do not know, click on the highlighted names of people or places if you want more information about them. I am very proud to have my photographs in the MoMA New York Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Club 57: Film, Performance and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983". It opened October 31rst 2017 and closes April 1st 2018. I attended the opening and it was a pleasure to see all the people who I knew from Club 57 back in the '80s. You can see the nine Club 57 photographers on monitors before you go into the exhibition. I am honoured to be with these talented photographers. The photos and images above of the monitors and the entrance of the opening of the show is taken by one of the exhibition photographer's the talented April Palmieri. I want to thank the curators for their great hard work for putting all of this together: Ron Magliozzi, Sophie Cavoulacos and guest curator Ann Magnuson. The other photographers with me in the exhibition is Lina Bertucci, Katherine Dumas, April Palmieri, Anthony Scibelli, Joseph Skodzinski, Harvey Wang, Ande Whyland and Christina Yuin. The following is a description of the exhibition by MoMA: 

The East Village of the 1970s and 1980s continues to thrive in the global public’s imagination. Located in the basement of a Polish Church at 57 St. Marks Place, Club 57 (1978–83) began as a no-budget venue for music and film exhibitions, and quickly took pride of place in a constellation of countercultural venues in downtown New York fueled by low rents, the Reagan presidency, and the desire to experiment with new modes of art, performance, fashion, music, and exhibition. A center of creative activity in the East Village, Club 57 is said to have influenced virtually every club that came in its wake.

Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983 is the first major exhibition to fully examine the scene-changing, interdisciplinary life of this seminal downtown New York alternative space. The exhibition will tap into the legacy of Club 57’s founding curatorial staff—film programmers Susan Hannaford and Tom Scully, exhibition organizer Keith Haring, and performance curator Ann Magnuson—to examine how the convergence of film, video, performance, art, and curatorship in the club environment of New York in the 1970s and 1980s became a model for a new spirit of interdisciplinary endeavor. Responding to the broad range of programming at Club 57, the exhibition will present their accomplishments across a range of disciplines—from film, video, performance, and theater to photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, zines, fashion design, and curating. Building on extensive research and oral history, the exhibition features many works that have not been exhibited publicly since the 1980s.

CITY PRIMEVAL: NEW YORK BERLIN PRAGUE

CITY PRIMEVAL: NEW YORK BERLIN PRAGUE An Anthology curated by Robert Carrithers & Louis Armand (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia) CITY PRIMEVAL: NEW YORK BERLIN PRAGUE is a personal journey through time in each city told by writers, artists and photographers from each city. Robert Carrithers acts as a tour guide throughout the book with stories, photographs and art. The book was published in September 2017. We had book releases with performance, music, readings and slide show lectures by photographers to bring the book alive. The New York book release was November 10th at the Howl Happening, November 30th November 30th at Kino Central and eschloraque in Berlin and at Prague Design Week in Prague December 2nd. These special events brought the book alive in all three cities.

CITY PRIMEVAL is a constellation of personal documentaries of place & time by key contemporary writers, poets, musicians, designers, filmmakers, photographers, artists, editors, performers from within the New York, Berlin & Prague underground scenes from the late 1970s to the present; from New York Post-Punk & No Wave, to the fall of the Berlin Wall & Reunification, to the Velvet Revolution & the Prague Renaissance; including contributions by Bruno Adams, Penny Arcade, Louis Armand, Dale Ashmon, J.Jackie Baier, Markéta Baňková, Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer, Lina Bertucci, Gaby Bíla-Günther Mykel Board, Victor Bockris, Christoph Brandl, Gary Ray Bugarcic, Robert Carrithers, David Černý, Roman Černý, Michal Cihlář, Antonio Cossa, William Coupon, Max Dax, Christoph Dreher, Sara Driver, Glen Emery, Vincent Farnsworth, Nat Finkelstein, Roxanne Fontana, Thor Garcia, Susanne Glück, Carola Goellner, Anthony Haden Guest, Carl Haber, Jere Harshman, Henry Hills, Nhoah Hoena, Michael Holman, John Hood, Chris Hughes, Jolana Izbická, Timo Jacobs, Bethany Eden Jacobson, Tobiáš Jirous, Bettina Köster, Julius Klein, Hubert Ketzschmar, Jaromír Lelek, Lydia Lunch, Rinat Magsumov, Peter Milne, Steve Morell, Mona Mur, Julia Murakami, Shalom Neuman, Paul Pacey, Puma Perl, Rudolf Piper, Rudi Protrudi, Mark Reeder, Marcia Resnik, Ingrid Rudefors, Ilse Ruppert, Šimon Šafránek, Honza Sakař, Oliver Schütz, Marcia Schofield, Tom Scully, Semra Sevin, Phil Shoenfelt, Peter Smith, Azalea So Sweet, Mark Steiner, Kenton Turk, Andre Werner, Ian Wright, Nick Zedd, Dave Zijlstra, Richard & Winter Zoli, Miron Zownir.