KEYNOTE: This exciting volume presents the work of three leading figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s, focusing on the intersections between their practices and exploring their shared concerns. Exhibition Itinerary: Barbican Art Gallery, London March 3?May 22, 2011 Collaborators and friends, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and Gordon Matta-Clark were at the cutting edge of Manhattan's burgeoning downtown art scene during the 1970s. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery in London, which examines the crossover of these artists' practices and the influence of their work on each other. Focusing on their mutual themes of performance, the body, the urban environment and found spaces, the book is divided into four sections: Downtown New York; Drawing and Performing; Urban Inventions; and Performance and Interaction. The city of New York in the 1970s, faced with bankruptcy, rising crime rates and unemployment, plays its own starring role in the book, as these artists worked in derelict city buildings for their large-scale projects and engaged directly with the public out of doors. This beautiful volume documents an exciting period in the history of contemporary art and reveals the lasting value of open exchange between artists. AUTHOR: Roselee Goldberg, founder of the interdisciplinary arts organisation Performa, New York, is the author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. Alanna Heiss is Director of Art International Radio. She founded P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 1976 and was its Director until 2008. Philip Ursprung is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at University of Zurich. Lydia Yee is Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London. ILLUSTRATIONS; 180 illustrations
