1V ROOMSP.S.1, New York9-26 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 HEISSAlanna 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 Ur-ban Resources, which was devoted to creating in-stallations in otherwise unused or overlooked spa-ces 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 Clockto-wer 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 cu-rated the exhibition “Rooms” in a crumbling scho-olhouse 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 conceptuali-zations of installation art and has since become emblematic of the alternative space movement. In fact she turned it into the most important non-museum 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 Contempo-rary 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 disconti-nued 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 Internatio-nal Radio, an Internet-based art radio station operating out of the Clocktower Gallery in Lower Manhattan, New York which produces its own arts-oriented material and broadcasts.

PODCASTShttp://artonair.org/podcasts/2010/02/a-slice-of-pie-with-alanna-heiss-part-1

http://artonair.org/podcasts/2010/02/a-slice-of-pie-with-alanna-heiss-part-2

ONLINE ARTICLEShttp://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/4222

BIBLIOGRAPHYRichard 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 cata-logue P.S.1, 1988, New York, Milano, Fabbri Editori.

Alex Katz under the stars: American lan-dscapes, 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; Cam-bridge, 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, exhi-bition 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 20IV. P.S.1 and beyond

Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio, 19, 22100 Como, Italia. www.fondazioneratti.org

Richard Nonas, poster for the exhibition Rooms, P.S.1, New York, 1976 Cover of Artforum, October 1976