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Information and accumulated knowledge about urban developments and the idealised New York art scene of the 1960s and 1970s connects to this recent past, and allows space to question, investigate, invent and function, anew and in the present, as a laboratory to take new ideas about the future into practice.
The name GOOD is derived from FOOD, the name of the restaurant opened in 1971 by Gordon Matta-Clark, Caroline Goodden, Tina Girourd, Suzanne Harris and Rachel Lew at 127 Spring Street, New York. To show and document their work and support to themselves and others, they organized a cooperative community network, which led to FOOD becoming the meeting place and centre of discussion at the time, in the heart of SOHO.
The group was also responsible for the founding of the magazine Avalanche, and they started the performance and exhibition space 112 Greene Street (later White Columns developed from this) and the think-tank Anarchitecture Group.
The name GOOD is derived from FOOD, the name of the restaurant opened in 1971 by Gordon Matta-Clark, Caroline Goodden, Tina Girourd, Suzanne Harris and Rachel Lew at 127 Spring Street, New York. To show and document their work and support to themselves and others, they organized a cooperative community network, which led to FOOD becoming the meeting place and centre of discussion at the time, in the heart of SOHO.
The group was also responsible for the founding of the magazine Avalanche, and they started the performance and exhibition space 112 Greene Street (later White Columns developed from this) and the think-tank Anarchitecture Group.
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The location of the house diagonally opposite P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is meaningful. P.S.1 (today affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art) has developed directly from the history and practices of alternative spaces. In the 1970s, the strategy of the Institute for Art & Urban Resources that Gordon Matta-Clark and Tina Girourd were closely involved with, occupied empty spaces in the city, making a major contribution in that period to a highly active and inspiring artistic climate.
GOOD questions if such a climate is still possible today. Asking the question may already be the start of stimulating the emergence of such a climate.
GOOD questions if such a climate is still possible today. Asking the question may already be the start of stimulating the emergence of such a climate.
