Category: Art
Starting tomorrow the Barbican Art Gallery presents the catchily named Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark, Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s.
This intriguing exhibition takes a look at the performance artists who changed the landscape of art as we know it today – through avante garde combinations of dance, music, writing, drawing and installations. Laurie Anderson created intricate arrangements of ideas using photography and text, Trisha Brown is best known for adapting the medium of dance to fit the everyday – sending her dancers clambering over the rooftop urban environment and up and down the walls and water tanks of New York. Gordon Matta-Clark shows an intriguing combination of extreme urban guerilla art and ecological awareness. Whether slicing up abandoned downtown properties, creating food sharing co-operative communities, or filming communions with the trees, his work spoke to me the most urgently in these unsettling times.
Gordon Matta-Clark, Tree Dance, 1971
I'll be writing up a proper review of this exhibition shortly, but here's the key data you need to know in the meantime:
Full information can be found on the Barbican website here. There will be daily performances in the gallery, so remember to check times.
TA-DA. As if by magic, here's my review, do take a look!