Scheda Alanna Heiss.pdf - Fondazione Antonio Ratti

1V ROOMS
P.S.1, New York
9-26 June 1976
Participant artists:
Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Antonakos, Michael Asher, Evriah Bader, John Baldessari, Jared Bark,
Jennifer Bartlett, Bill Beirne, Robert Benson, James Bishop, Ronald Bladen, Power Boothe,
Daniel Buren, Scott Burton, Michael Clark, Colette, David’s Wrath, Douglas Davis, Walter de Maria,
Peter Downsbrough, Stefan Eins, Joel Fisher, Dieter Froese, Steve Gianakos, Frank Gillette,
Tina Girouard, Michael Goldberg, Ron Gorchov, Robert Grosvenor, Ira Joel Haber, Marcia Hafif,
Suzanne Harris, Dale Henry, Lynn Hershman, Jene Highstein, Patrick Ireland, Bill Jenson,
Alain Kirili, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Joseph Kosuth, Shigeko Kubota, Garry B. Kuehn, Jeffrey Lew,
Gordon Matta-Clark, Brenda Miller, Antoni Miralda, Mary Miss, Richard Mock, Bruce Nauman,
Max Neuhaus, Richard Nonas, Patsy Norvell, Doug Ohlson, Dennis Oppenheim Nam June, Paik,
Howardena Pindell, Lucio Pozzi, David Rabinowitch, Judy Rifka, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback,
Alan Saret, Richard Serra, Judith Shea, Charles Simmonds, Ned Smyth, Eve Sonneman,
Sylvia Stone, Marjorie Strider, Michelle Stuart, Susanna Tanger, Hap Tivey, Richard Tuttle,
Susan Weil, Lawrence Weiner, Doug Wheeler, Robert Yasuda.
ALANNA HEISS
Alanna Heiss (*1943, Louisville) is the founder and
former Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art and the
current Director of AIR – Air International Radio.
Alanna Heiss was one of the originators of the
alternative space movement, which became the
centre of American artistic life during that decade
through the activation of spaces for art outside
traditional museum spaces.
In 1971, she founded The Institute for Art and Urban
Resources, which was devoted to creating installations
in otherwise unused or overlooked spaces
in New York, In the same year she organized
Under the Brooklyn Bridge, an outdoor show with
installations by pioneering American and European
artists. Soon afterwards she created the Clocktower
Gallery and the Idea Warehouse, among many
others. In 1973, the Clocktower Gallery, located in
a municipal building in Lower Manhattan, opened
with its three inaugural shows: Joel Shapiro,
Richard Tuttle, and James Bishop, thus becoming
a legendary alternative space that is currently the
broadcast centre of Art International Radio.
It is with the same spirit that in 1972 Heiss she curated
the exhibition “Rooms” in a crumbling schoolhouse
in Long Island, Queens. Richard Serra,
Walter De Maria, and Richard Nonas were some
of the artists to participate in this exhibition, which
articulated much of the ideals and conceptualizations
of installation art and has since become
emblematic of the alternative space movement.
In fact she turned it into the most important nonmuseum
of NY, a showcase of the independent
artistic activities that were kept out of traditional
institutions, and which opened way to one of the
bastions of contemporary art: the P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, which she directed until 2008.
Alanna Heiss has curated and/or organized over
700 exhibitions at P.S.1 and elsewhere.
In 2004, Heiss founded Art Radio WPS1.org, the
Internet radio station of P.S.1. which was discontinued
on January 2009.
Heiss received a BA from Lawrence University and
a scholarship from the Lawrence Conservatory
of Music. In 2001, Heiss received an Honorary
Doctorate in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art
Institute, and in 2008, she received an Honorary
Doctorate in Humane Letters from Lawrence
University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She is currently
director of is the Director of AIR, Art International
Radio, an Internet-based art radio station
operating out of the Clocktower Gallery in Lower
Manhattan, New York which produces its own artsoriented
material and broadcasts.
PODCASTS
http://artonair.org/podcasts/2010/02/aslice-of-pie-with-alanna-heiss-part-1
http://artonair.org/podcasts/2010/02/aslice-of-pie-with-alanna-heiss-part-2
ONLINE ARTICLES
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/
articles/4222
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Richard Kostelanetz, SOHO: The Rise and
Fall of an Artists’ Colony Routledge, 2003
Alternative art, New York, 1965-1985: a
cultural politics book for the Social Text
Collective, edited by Julie Ault, Minnesota
Press, 2002
Division and Multiplication of the Mirror.
Michelangelo Pistoletto, curated by Alanna
Heiss and Germano Celant, exhibition catalogue
P.S.1, 1988, New York, Milano, Fabbri
Editori.
Alex Katz under the stars: American landscapes,
1951-1996, Long Island City, NY:
Institute for Contemporary Arts/P.S.1
Quartetto: Joseph Beuys, Enzo Cucchi,
Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Alanna
Heiss, Kaspar König , Milano, Mondadori,
1984
David Hammons: rousing the rubble, New
York; Institute for Contemporary Art; Cambridge,
Massachusetts: MIT Press, c1991.
Theatergarden bestiarium: the garden as
theater as museum, exhibition organized by
Chris Dercon, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
MIT Press, c1990.
The Real royal trip = El real viaje real, exhibition
curated by Harald Szeemann, edited
by Alanna Heiss, Long Island City, N.Y: P.S.
1 Contemporary Art Center; New York,
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2003

Venerdì, 17 dicembre 2010 dalle 18 alle 20
IV. P.S.1 and beyond
Richard Nonas, poster for the exhibition
Rooms, P.S.1, New York, 1976 Cover of Artforum, October 1976
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