ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo, Lauren Rosati, Herb Tam EXIT ART | 475 Tenth Avenue | New York, New York, NY 10018 | Sept 24 — Nov 24, 2010 Spaces: For a complete list of included spaces and projects, click HERE
So What Does Alternative Mean to You?
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Exhibition:
Alternative Histories was a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the exhibition told the story of pioneering spaces and documented a new generation of alternative projects.
October 15, 2010, What Is Alternative? panel discussion moderated by Robert Storr and with Papo Colo, Artistic Director / Co-Founder, Exit Art; Martha Wilson, Founder / Director, Franklin Furnace; Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, Former Directors of ABC No Rio, Founders / Director of Le Petit Versailles; Bridget Finn, Cleopatra's; October 22, 2010, Alternative Curatorial Strategies panel discussion organized by ArtTable, moderated by Erin Donnelly of LMCC with Ingrid Chu and Savannah Gorton, Forever & Today, Inc.; Allison Weisberg, Recess Activities; Michael Connor, Marian Spore; Regine Basha, Basha Projects/Grackleworld; Virginija Januškeviciute, CEC Artslink Fellow from Lithuania hosted by Independent Curators International; Radhika Subramaniam, Director/Chief Curator, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center; October 29, 2010, Activism and the Rise of Alternative Art Spaces, moderated by Mary Anne Staniszewski and with Robert Lee, Director, Asian American Arts Centre; Beka Economopoulos, Co-Founder / Director, Not An Alternative; Alanna Heiss, Founder, P.S.1, Director, AIR and Clocktower Gallery; Avram Finkelstein, Gran Fury; Melissa Rachleff Burtt, Clinical Associate Professor of Arts Administration, NYU; November 9, 2010, screening of "Soup & Tart," 1974; November 10, 2010, New Media Alternatives panel discussion moderated by Ed Halter, Light Industry, and with Rebecca Cleman, Distribution Director, Electronic Arts Intermix; Lauren Cornell, Executive Director, Rhizome, and Adjunct Curator, the New Museum of Contemporary Art; Carol Parkinson, Director, Harvestworks; November 16-17, 2010, Counter Culture, Counter Cinema film series organized by the NACG / Film-makers' Cooperative