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Arleen Schloss (born December 12, 1943 in Brooklyn , New York , USA ) is an American performance artist , video pioneer and curator.

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Arleen Schloss is one of the early American video art and performance pioneers. With the concept of "Wednesday`s A`s" in a loft on Broome Street in the Bowery , a former slum district, she created a new, alternative art platform for experimental, non-established artists in Downtown New York in 1979. Every Wednesday they could present their video art, performances, music, drawings or paintings to an audience and talk to them about the work. From 1980, “Wednesday's A's” was a well-known exhibition address for new art, video and music that had no chance at established galleries and institutions. Some of the artists exhibited at “A's” later became very well-known. B. Eric Bogosian , Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ai Weiwei . “A's” featured works by Glenn Branca , The Coachmen, Kim Gordon, Phoebe Legere, Thurston Moore, Shirin Neshat, Lee Ranaldo, Sur Rodney Sur and Alan Vega, among others . No-wave and noise bands bands and others a. like Test Pattern, Gray and Mania D played at "A's" on Wednesdays. SAMO, alias Jean-Michel Basquiat, had his first exhibition in October 1979 at “A's”. Due to the wide acceptance of her non-academic “A's” exhibition concept, which made “A's” a long-running hit in the New York underground scene, Schloss was invited to work as a curator . She curated exhibitions in the "Danceteria", an art disco in SoHo , and in the window of "Art and Architecture", a prestigious architectural venue in New York.

life and work

Arleen Schloss (left) in Martin Kippenberger`s SO 36, Berlin, Jan. 1980

Schloss graduated from Bank Street College College of Education, Art Students League, Parsons School of Design and graduated from New York University . She first worked as a painter, exhibiting in galleries in SoHo and the Lower East Side . As a performance artist, she first appeared in 1977 in "The Kitchen", a multidisciplinary non-profit gallery and in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The SoHo Weekly News wrote about her musical, art-poetry performances "... her voice was like the way Patti Smith or Yoko Ono are musical." She showed performances like "It`s an A" in the USA, Europe and Asia at Franklin Furnace, Betty Parsons Galerie, Bykert Galerie, Construction Company, Max Hutchinson Galerie in SoHo, Lenbachhaus Galerie in Munich , La Nuit Parcourt La Ceil in Belgium, Cafe Einstein and SO 36 in Berlin and the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz , Austria. The New York Times described their performances as "outstanding among performance artists".

In the 1980s, Schloss performed her media opera "AE BLA BLA BLA" (directed by Butch Morris) at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Dancers, directed by Christa Gamper, create the work. Peter Weibel , curator of Ars Electronica writes "As a practitioner who is at home in many media and as an energetic champion of various new technologies, Arleen Schloss has been intensively involved with language since she gave up painting in the early 1970s ". As a digital art pioneer, Schloss was a guest on Willoughby Sharp's Downtown '86, an award-winning Kabel ACE show that featured the best artists, musicians, and performers of the 1980s . Her lyrical sound collages such as "How She Sees It By Her" are documented in the anthology , "Just Another Asshole," a no-wave art / music / sound magazine by Glenn Branca and Barbara Ess. and "Text-Sound Texts" edited by Richard Kostelanetz.

digital art

Schloss was one of the first artists to get an 8mm video camera from Canon for experimentation. With the camera she created a travelogue video format "Sun Daze Away", which was shown in 1989 on Central Park's summer stage in Europe and Asia. From 1990 Schloss worked as a producer and director for the video documentary "FromKepler2Cyberspace", made with a Hi8 from Sony. This documentation introduces pioneers of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, such as B. Dr. Marvin Minsky , John Perry Barlow , Timothy Leary , William Gibson and Jaron Lanier . At the same time, Schloss was filming a series of interviews with John Cage that she added to the "Windows of Chance / Change" series. Nickelodeon broadcast their children's video art project, The Alphabet, and commissioned them in 1989 to produce fifteen live videos for the cartoon series "Eureeka's Castle". These won the Cable ACE Award. In the 90s she continued her work with new art and media forms. Schloss showed the electronic work "Marbelize" at the international digital and technology exhibition, the ISEA, in Rotterdam, Holland.

Schloss has received grants, awards, and invitations from the Experimental Television Center, Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York Foundation of the Arts, Harvestworks, Allied Productions, and the Ford Foundation. She sits on the board of directors of Art & Sciences Collaborations Inc and her work is part of the Fales Library, AT&T, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and Donnell Library collections. A documentary about Arleen's life's work "Wednesdays at A's" by Stuart Ginsberg is in production. The New York Underground Museum documented their work. Schloss lives in New York City.

Exhibitions and performances

  • "Feet"; Interactive environment, Soho, NYC 1970
  • "Words & Sound Music" Jack Smead, Bykert Gallery, New York, 1975
  • "Snap" on the making of an elastic composition ", Alphabet Orchestra, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York 1976
  • "A Shot.Chance", live video performance, The Kitchen, New York, 1977
  • "its A at MoMa" live video performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978
  • "The New York from the Performance" Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie, Munich 1980
  • "Media Opera" AEBla Bla Bla, Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society, Linz, Austria, 1986
  • "Glenn Branca Symphony No. 4 / Physics", Donnell Library, New York City, 1984
  • "SUN DAZE AWAY," Central Park Summer Stage, 1989
  • "Art Around the Park", video and film documentary, Tompkins Square Park, NYC 1992
  • "From Kepler 2 Cyberspace", Hi8 Documentation on Virtual Pioneers, Symposium "Virtual Reality", New York 1993
  • "Castle with University", retrospective, Städtische Galerie im Butentor Bremen Germany, 1994
  • "Nine Dragon Heads", Nature Electronic 2nd International Environmental Festival, Chung Buck, Korea 1997

Public collections

  • Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1970/72
  • AT&T Longlines, New Jersey, 1976
  • Belgium Television Network, Liege, Belgium, 1980
  • Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie, Munich, 1981
  • Museum of Modern Art Library, New York City, 1982
  • Donnell Film & Video Library of the City of New York, 1984
  • Swedish Television Network; Stockholm, Sweden, 1985
  • ORF TV; Linz, Austria, 1990
  • A Table Matsuya, Tokyo, Japan, 1991

Prices

  • Multi-Media, Soho Tech Award, A's Salon Series, 1980
  • ACE Award, The Universe of A, on the making of performance opera, 1987
  • ACE Award Manhattan Cable Television, Eureeka's Castle Nickelodeon TV, 1989

Scholarships

  • Latin American Resource Inc, Electrostatic Books 1975
  • Multi-Media, Creative Artists Program, NYSCA, 1980
  • National Endowment for the Arts, an Allied Productions performance project, FLYING LETTERS, 1985
  • Media Bureau-SunDazeAway, 1989
  • CHANGE Inc., Artists Fellowship, Inc. 1990
  • New York Foundation for the Arts, Video fellowship 1992
  • Experimental Television Center, (Artist-In-Residence) electronic imaging 1995

classes

  • New York City Public School System, English & Art, 1968–1982
  • University of Rochester, 1975
  • New York Public Schools, early childhood, experimental Piaget programs, primary NYC / Junior High School 1976-66.
  • National Center for Afro American Artists, Roxberry, Mass., 1980
  • Children's Art Carnival, NYC, 1982-84
  • Audio, The Sound Foundation, NYC, 1983
  • Rhythm / Rhyme, audio / video program Public School 75, NYC, 1987
  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1987
  • Media to the Fine Arts, Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen, Germany, 1993–94
  • Performance art workshops for children and adults since the 1970's and 80's at the Center for Media Arts
  • Videosound, University of the Arts, Bremen Germany School of Visual Art, New York. in the 90's & 2000
  • Improvised workshops, no borders, School of Visual Arts, NYC 1999/2000
  • Video Consultant, Sidewalks of New York, Hi Tek Teens, NYC, 1990

literature

Goodbye 20th Century: The Story of Sonic Youth, Arleen Schloss p. 414 ff, Publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch; Edition: 1st, edition (August 24, 2009) ISBN 3462041622

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix, p. 514 Publisher: Walther König; Har / Com edition (March 1, 2009)
  2. ↑ http://www.nypress.com/article-17040-qa-arlene-schloss.html
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ SoHo Weekly News, "Schloss / Smead," January 30, 1975
  6. ^ New York Times, "Music (?): Kitchen Sink," Robert Palmer, October 13, 1977
  7. ↑ http://90.146.8.18/de/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=9006
  8. ^ Carlo McCormick, "The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984," Princeton University Press, 2006
  9. ↑ Captured: A Lower East Side Film & Video History, By Clayton Patterson, 2005
  10. ↑ Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Retrieved July 4, 2019 (American English).
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Castle, Arleen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American performance artist, video pioneer and curator
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , USA