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Okay, this is a bit of a weird one. Inspired by Hank O’Neal’s photos from that last post (that's one of his), I dug up the videos below of The Rivington School. |
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As I understand it, The Rivington School was technically a loose collective of artists who put up these massive guerilla sculpture gardens, not too different from the old Gas Station on Avenue B. Here's a shot by Toyo Tsuchiya of it circa 1986. |
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To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what these first two videos are all about. This first one is the Plexus group having a “deconstruction event” at The Rivington School at some point in 1989. Keep your eyes out for an appearance by Arto Lindsay of DNA and The Lounge Lizards... |
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Here’s another from 1986, this one featuring the music of Ritual Tension... |
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Lastly, here’s another episode of Rik Little’s “The Church of Shooting Yourself.” I wrote a little bit about this program back on this post, but essentially, “The Church of Shooting Yourself” was kind of a proto-video blog (consider Rik Little the evil twin of Nelson Sullivan), which captured the somewhat bug-eyed, largely paranoid ramblings of Little as he traversed downtown Manhattan with his trusty video camera. I don’t know if it was shtick or not, but it frequently made for compelling viewing back in the day. |
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COMMENT: Ric Little was important, well respected, and loved by the bygone scene, that was the Rivington School. His energies and talents predated that, and helped to create the environment that many a narcissistic ego bully laid claim to. I can't think of a single journalist, or journalistic approach that equals his total emersion into his subject matter as a producer, cameraman, reporter/communitarian, subject, that hits his DYI bravery.... | Posted by: Julius Klein | January 17, 2015 at 03:45 AM |
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Artist Tovey Halleck under an arch he installed in the Rivington Sculpture Garden, 1985. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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Anti-commercial and anarchist by design, the Rivington School was a tongue-in-cheek response to the prominent art movements, or “schools,” of the time. Its members—a loose band of aesthetic misanthropes with influences ranging from performance art to graffiti to Neoism—concentrated their iconoclastic assault on the establishment from an underground bar at 42 Rivington Street. Dubbed the No Se No Social Club, it was positioned across the street from a shuttered public school—the “Rivington School”—from which the artists appropriated their name. |
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A Panoramic composite view of the Rivington Sculpture Garden before it was demolished in 1987. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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A new exhibition highlights the work of Toyo Tsuchiya, No Se No’s resident photographer and an active participant in the Rivington Sculpture Garden, a twisted, junkyard vision that would become the group’s most enduring legacy. In his images, and others by artist Linus Coraggio, the garden’s ad hoc salvaging and construction process emerges as an extended party predicated on the young artists’ belief that no one gave a shit what they were doing. And mostly they didn’t. But as the threatening thicket of gnarled fencing, car parts, and abandoned electronics continued to grow and densify, the owners of the lot took notice. In late 1987, a particularly tall portion of the sculpture collapsed, nearly killing a group of people, and the city dismantled the piece in November of that year. Though the garden was resurrected twice again at different locations, it, along with the rest of the East Village’s vibrant arts scene, was under persistent threat from the shifting demographics—and real-estate values—of the neighborhood. Today, the Rivington School is remembered as a little-known chapter in New York’s art history, and one of the most authentic moments for outsider postmodernism at the end of the 20th century. |
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Photos courtesy Gallery 98 from the online exhibition Linus Coraggio, Toyo Tsuchiya, and the Rivington School, 1983–95. | |||||||
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Artist Ken Hiratsuka chiseling one of his “continuous line” carvings at Prince Street and Broadway, New York, in April 1984. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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Ken Hiratsuka left a real mark on the sidewalks and boulders of New York. (Joan C. Barker + Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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One of Ken's carved stones was the first piece of sculpture in the Rivington School garden. (Joan C. Barker + Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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A group gathers in front of Ray Kelly’s “fountain sculpture,” outside the No Se No Social Club in 1983. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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Artist Ray Kelly and Buster, 1990. (Linus Coraggio/Gallery 98) | |||||||
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Coraggio, David Mora Catlett, and Fred Bertucci on Rivington Street in 1986. (Linus Coraggio/Gallery 98) |
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Ray Kelly’s Van with hand-welded roof rack, near Forsyth and Rivington Streets, circa 1987. (Linus Coraggio/Gallery 98) |
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Rivington Sculpture Garden with Ed Herman’s “flying figures,” circa 1986. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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Working on the Rivington Scuplture Garden, 1986. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) | |||||||
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Working on the Rivington Scuplture Garden, 1986. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) | |||||||
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“Cowboy Ray” Kelly hanging out with Lower East Side neighbors in the empty lot that would house the Sculpture Garden in 1985. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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For the Garden’s first anniversary in 1986, Toyo Tsuchiya and three others completely covered the structure in white paint. (Toyo Tsuchiya/Gallery 98) |
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