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Tim Lawrence’s Life and Death on the New York Dancefloor

Tim Lawrence’s Life and Death on the New York Dancefloor

October 8, 2016 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue
Howl! Happening
6 East 1st Street
New York City, NY 10003 + Google Map

Saturday, October 8 / 6.30 PM / Free

A Photography Show with featured photographers
Bobby Grossman, Allan Tannenbaum, Harvey Wang, and Ande Whyland

The Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor Photography Show presents the work of four photographers who appear in Tim Lawrence’s new book, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-83. Photographs by Bobby Grossman, Allan Tannenbaum, Harvey Wang, and Ande Whyland d’s are a key part of the book’s documentation of New York party culture in the early 80s, a time when DJing, live music, experimental video and film, performance art, and immersive happenings combined to create one of the most explosively creative eras in the city’s history.

Capturing many protagonists and venues—from the Mudd Club to Club 57 to Danceteria to the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge—these photographs provide a compelling portrait of New York in the midst of its participatory peak.

The Photography Show presents a selection of these photographers’ work with commentary that reveals some of the stories behind the images as well as recollections of the era. Dany Johnson, Club 57 DJ, will contribute to Ande Whyland’s presentation and Richard Boch, door person at the Mudd Club, will narrate Bobby Grossman’s photographs, as he could not be with us in person.

About the Participants
Tim Lawrence
Bobby Grossman
Allan Tannenbaum
Harvey Wang
Ande Whyland

Dany Johnson worked as the main DJ at Club 57, the influential downtown party that mixed film screenings, DJing, participatory performance and immersive happenings. She cultivated a style that brought camp retro records into a creative, fun-loving setting. She also DJed at the Pyramid, and Mudd Club, where she and Ann Magnuson helped refurbish the second floor lounge.

Richard Boch is an artist, writer, and lifelong New Yorker. He has just completed 77 White, a direct personal account of New York’s legendary Mudd Club, centered on the 22 months in 1979 and 1980 spent working the door. In 2014, he moderated the panel discussion GoNightclubbing at NYU’s Fales Library. He is also editing Bobby Grossman’s Low Fidelity: Still Photographs 1975–1983. In November 2015, he served on the host committee of the Mudd Club Rummage Sale benefitting the Bowery Mission. 77 White is Richard Boch’s first book.

Phone
917.475.1294
Website
howlarts.org
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