Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983

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How one small, no-budget club was a crucible of East Village creativity

New York’s East Village used to be alive with artistic activity within the 1970s and ’80s, fueled by low rents, resistance to the Reagan presidency and the will to experiment with new modes of art, performance, fashion, music, and exhibition. Club 57, positioned within the basement of a Polish church at 57 St. Marks Place, started as a no-budget venue for music and film exhibitions and quickly was a center of the neighborhood’s constellation of countercultural venues, with artists such as Keith Haring, Ann Magnuson, Klaus Nomi, Tseng Kwong Chi, John Sex, Fab 5 Freddy, John “Lypsinka” Eppperson, and Lisa Baumgardner. Fabled but not widely recognized until now, Club 57 is said to have influenced virtually each and every club that came in its wake.
Published to accompany the first major exhibition to inspect this scene-changing alternative space in full, Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art within the East Village, 1978–1983 features rarely seen artwork, film stills, photographs, posters, flyers, and zines to create a uniquely detailed portrait of unbridled creativity before the morning time of the digital age.

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