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Clocktower Productions is a non-profit art institution working in the visual arts, performance, music, and radio.It was founded in 1972 as The Clocktower Gallery by Alanna Heiss, the Founder and former Director of MoMA PS1 (formerly P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center) under the aegis of the Institute for Art and Urban Resources.
As an extension to the radio project, gallery spaces were used for artists’ projects, workshops, community events, and as residences. [5] In June 2010, the second exhibition at AIR's Clocktower Gallery opened; entitled The Dangerous Book Four Boys. It was the first solo exhibition of the work of actor and artist James Franco. [6] [7]
Alanna Heiss (born May 13, 1943, in Louisville, Kentucky) is the Founder and Director of Clocktower Productions, a non profit arts organization, online radio station, and program partnership with six cultural institutions in three boroughs in New York.
These included “Release”, an evening of solo performances by a sampling of New York noise musicians; and “Timebomb”, a four-night series of music, poetry, film/video, and cyberculture. This series was documented in the CD release Timebomb: Live At The Clocktower Gallery issued by PS1 Contemporary Art Center. [15]
Additionally, it was the focal point of an exhibition at College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts at Boston University's 808 Gallery. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Mary Mattingly's Flock House Project: Omaha , a citywide workshop and exhibition curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley , was developed while she was a resident at the Bemis Center for Contemporary ...
In 2013 Ruiz completed a two month residency at the Clocktower Gallery in downtown New York City where she completed a mixtape project titled "Borough Gypsy" which the gallery described as "a lo-fi cassette tape trip down memory lane using the grit of 90's Hip Hop combined with Soul and acoustic folk elements."
The Whitechapel Gallery, in London, organized a major retrospective exhibition in 1983, resulting in his winning the inaugural Turner Prize, awarded by the Tate, in 1984. [6] The artist remembered the moment he learned he had won the prize: "When the call came to say he had won, he was sitting in his loft studio in the Bowery, 'watching a bum ...
[13] [14] Kirili had several shows at Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and Geneva before his sculptures were first exhibited in New York in 1976 at the inaugural show of the Institute for Art and Urban Resources (now MoMA PS1) and at the Clocktower Gallery in Lower Manhattan. In 1977, his sculpture was included in the Documenta VI in Kassel, Germany.