Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s

Trisha Brown, Planes (1968)

The exhibition 'Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown and Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York, 1970s' at the Barbican Art Gallery was a good reference to our group project as these artists used city as their stage, inspiration or medium in itself for art in multidisciplinary ways.

I really enjoyed Trisha Brown's 'Planes' (1968), a dance performance where dancers move on a big wall upon which city scenes of New York are projected. As the dancers move, the clarity of how one perceives 'up' and 'down' fades and suddenly one is watching bodies falling through air - a free-fall. In my opinion, this performance especially relates to our own project because similarly the city scenes are "taken away" from their contexts providing viewers a sense of displacement.