A history of alternative spaces in New York, from SoHo to the South Bronx (1969–1985)

Éditions Les Presses du Réel and Jeu de Paume are pleased to invite you to a discussion with Pauline Chevalier to mark the publication of her book “Une histoire des espaces alternatifs à New York, de SoHo au South Bronx (1969-1985).” The author will be talking to Sophie Cras, lecturer in the history of contemporary art at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Alternative spaces, initially created in the industrial neighbourhoods of southern Manhattan, the future SoHo and TriBeCa, and then in the East Village, Queens, Brooklyn, and again the southern Bronx – these spaces for making and showing art and exchanging ideas on the margins of the institutional and commercial gallery scene were conducive to the emergence of new practices: process art, postmodern dance, video art, and performance.
Pauline Chevalier’s book is both a historical analysis and a geographical exploration, shedding light on the articulation between these practices and the institutional, social, economic and urban phenomena from which they are inseparable.

Pauline Chevalier is a lecturer at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, where she teaches art history and museology. Her research interests touch on the convergences of literature, dance, sculpture and moving images in American art since the 1960s, and on the overlap between exhibition and theatrical spaces in contemporary art.

Sophie Cras is a lecturer in art history at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is currently working on an anthology of texts by artists about economics, “L’Économie à l’épreuve de l’art (1955-1975),” to be published by Les Presses du Réel in a coedition with the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art.

Discussion Thursday 28 June at 7 pm.
Jeu de Paume educational area.
Admission free, first come first served.