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- Title
The Fiery Furnace: Performance in the '80s, War in the '90s.
- Authors
Carr, C.
- Abstract
This article presents historical background on the area of performance arts of Franklin Furnace, an institution that provides gallery for exhibitions and installations and even a publisher for artists and curators in the U.S., from the 1980s to the 1990s. The performance space at Franklin Furnace never stopped looking like the ordinary basement it was, with its exposed pipes and clip-on lights. At the back a couple of windows opened on an airshaft, where the occasional intrepid performer entered the so-called stage. The Furnace accommodated artists the way a gallery does, but like the East Village clubs, the space was funky and impervious, the attitude no holds barred. Here an audience could see that part of the performance art spectrum that is not about theatre, though there was that too: a first show for Eric Bogosian, for example, in 1977. The Furnace helped fill in some very important cracks, by supporting artists who might have otherwise fallen through them. Tehching Hsieh, for example, created world-renowned year-long ordeals in the late 1970 and early 1980s, but had no gallery, no funding, no actual toehold in the art world. Franklin Furnace began as one of the alternative spaces made possible after the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PERFORMING arts; AMERICAN artists; ART museum curators; BASEMENTS; ART museums; ARTS audiences; HSIEH, Tehching, 1950-; NATIONAL Endowment for the Arts
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2005, Vol 49, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Entertainment Review
- DOI
10.1162/1054204053327860