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RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project

Colette

Artist Colette revisits her various projects at the Idea Warehouse, The Clocktower Gallery and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1); explains why she almost didn't show up for her opening at The Clocktower; and reveals who she sought out as friends when others, the "Conceptualists" in particular, "did not take [her] seriously." (19 minutes)

RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Alanna Heiss and Jene Highstein, Part 1 Radio show Clocktower Gallery founder Alanna Heiss discusses the early, very early days of the Clocktower Gallery and other 1970's alternative spaces with sculptor Jene Highstein (Part 1 of 2). Clocktower Gallery founder Alanna Heiss and sculptor Jene Highstein discuss the projects leading up to the space’s inception, including the seminal exhibition 7 Sculptures, 5000 Square Feet, in the abandoned, cavernous space at 10 Bleecker... Listen Read More »	RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Alanna Heiss and Jene Highstein, Part 2 Radio show Clocktower Gallery founder Alanna Heiss discusses the early, very early days of the Clocktower Gallery and other 1970's alternative spaces with sculptor Jene Highstein (Part 2 of 2). Heiss and Highstein remember the Clocktower Gallery’s very first exhibitions, featuring Joel Shapiro's 27 foot-high cube, very little bridge, and very little chair; Richard Tuttle’s paper octagons placed, as if floating, 15 feet above eye-height;... Listen Read More »	RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Richard Nonas Radio show Sculptor Richard Nonas describes how he, Alanna Heiss, and a group of fearless artists turned abandoned, rundown basements into exhibition spaces, and wrote the early history of what would become the alternative spaces movement. Sculptor Richard Nonas tells the creation story of what eventually became the Clocktower Gallery. It was the 1970s, and a group of penniless, frustrated artists were desperate to show their work. But back then, no money meant no gallery space. So an... Listen Read More »
RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Ann Magnuson Radio show Performance artist Ann Magnuson discusses her first meeting with the Clocktower Gallery, and how its dramatic quality informed her first performance in the space. Performance artist Ann Magnuson says when she first visited the Clocktower, she was blown away by the drama of the space--the balcony, the gargoyles, the pendulum. So for a performance at the tower, Magnuson decided to run with the gothic feel of... Listen Read More »	RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Jeffrey Deitch Radio show Gallerist Jeffrey Deitch's memories of the birth of the Clocktower, and its immediate influence on the creation of new, alternative spaces around the world. Art dealer Jeffrey Deitch describes the Clocktower as a beacon for what was, in the 1970’s, an emerging downtown New York art scene, and what soon became a model for alternative spaces worldwide. (12 minutes) Listen Read More »	RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Bill Beirne Radio show Bill Beirne recalls how Dieter Froese introduced him to the overnight inflation and casual destruction of Sol LeWitt works, and describes encountering a woman on a twenty-foot ladder at the Clocktower Gallery... Video installation and performance artist Bill Beirne recalls how Dieter Froese introduced him to the overnight inflation and casual destruction of Sol LeWitt works in the '70s and '90s. Beirne also describes encountering a woman on a twenty-foot... Listen Read More »
RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Joel Shapiro Radio show Artist Joel Shapiro and bridges. Bridges, ladders, chairs, bridges, and an inaugural exhibition at the Clocktower Gallery, among other treasures of the early 1970's in the New York art world. Sculptor Joel Shapiro describes his studio on Leonard Street and the meaning of bridges. He speaks about his inaugural exhibition at the Clocktower Gallery, referencing the specifics of scale, space, and material as only an artist can. Shapiro... Listen Read More »	RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Ellen Phelan Radio show Ellen Phelan discusses her early years as a painter in New York, and her encounters with Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, John Baldessari and, more importantly (as we would later find out), Joel Shapiro. A bit of our history at the Clocktower. Ellen Phelan paints a vibrant glimpse of her life as a young painter in New York after having left Detroit. She was painting in a studio at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and exhibiting at the Clocktower while Michael Goldberg loaned her a loft on... Listen Read More »	RADIO // The Clocktower Oral History Project Vito Acconci Radio show Vito Acconci recalls his first installation in the Clocktower Gallery's boiler room, and discusses the importance of site-specificity in his work. Artist Vito Acconci's famed installation piece Under History Lessons was first created for and exhibited in the Clocktower's boiler room. Here he discusses the various catalysts for this piece, the importance of space in his work and how he rarely... Listen Read More »