Gordon Matta-Clark

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Conical Intersect

Aug 31, 1975

Conical Intersect

1975 17 min 1 vues

“I met Gordon Matta-Clark at the 1975 Paris Biennale. He was looking for a place to make a piece. I led him to a building across the street from my place on rue Beaubourg that I had been taking photos of for the past year and which was about to be demolished. In front of my eyes Conical Intersect became the last unexpected and dazzling resident of 29 rue Beaubourg.” —Marc Petitjean

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Food

Sep 18, 1972

Food

1972 43 min 1 vues

This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists' community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.

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Heart of a Dog

Oct 21, 2015

Heart of a Dog

2015 75 min 50 vues

Centré sur le bien-aimé terrier de Laurie Anderson, sa chienne Lolabelle, qui est décédée en 2011, Heart of a Dog est un essai qui mêle souvenirs d’enfance, journal intime en vidéo, rêveries autour de la collecte de données, de la culture de surveillance, de la conception bouddhiste de la vie après la mort, et des hommages chaleureux aux artistes, musiciens et penseurs qui l’ont inspirée.

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Food

Sep 18, 1972

Food

1972 43 min 1 vues

This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists' community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.

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Conical Intersect

Jan 01, 1975

Conical Intersect

1975 19 min 1 vues

Matta-Clark was invited to create Conical Intersect for the Paris Biennale in 1975. For this piece, he cut a giant conical shape into two adjacent seventeenth-century buildings designated for demolition as part of the urban redevelopment program that was clearing space for the Centre Georges Pompidou. Conical Intersect was filmed by Matta-Clark and Bruno Dewitt with funds from the Biennale.

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The Wall

Nov 12, 1976

The Wall

1976 14 min 1 vues

In 1976 Matta-Clark left for Berlin claiming that he intended to blow-up the Berlin Wall as his contribution to the New York–Downtown Manhattan: Soho show. Friends dissuaded him from such a suicidal action, and so instead he created Made in America, a piece that reflects on the political origins of the Berlin Wall and the West’s fascination with consumerism.

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City Slivers

Jan 01, 1976

City Slivers

1976 15 min 1 vues

For City Slivers, which was made with a camera borrowed from Robert Rauschenberg, Matta-Clark affixed vertical matte strips in front of an anamorphic camera lens, thereby allowing only slivers of light to penetrate the film. He then rewound the film, repositioned the mattes, and reshot the same camera load. Using only in-camera editing, the light appears to slice through the film frame in a manner analogous to Matta-Clark’s architectural “cuttings.”

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Bingo/Ninths

Aug 31, 1974

Bingo/Ninths

1974 10 min 1 vues

In August 1974 Matta-Clark carried out a ‘cutting’ in a house at Niagara Falls, New York. The artist divided the north façade into nine parts. In the film you hear him ask the builders to postpone the demolition. Hence the word play Bingo/Ninths, which became beagone by ninth. The house was demolished an hour after he had finished. The segments were transported to Art Park, where some of them were dumped to be gradually swept away by the Niagara River.

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Paris Underground

Feb 26, 1977

Paris Underground

1977 26 min 1 vues

In this film Matta-Clark explores underground Paris. The artist shows the complexity of underground spaces with scenes of architectural ruins, car parks, tunnels, ossuaries, cellars, crypts and basements in the Opera district.

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Splitting

Mar 12, 1974

Splitting

1974 11 min 1 vues

For his 'Splitting' project, Matta-Clark found a house in Englewood, NJ (322 Humphrey Street to be precise) set for demolition, and bisected it neatly down the middle. Half-documentation, half-exploration: Splitting shows the laborious process and heady result- a house split completely in two.

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Open House

Jun 01, 1972

Open House

1972 41 min 1 vues

In May 1972, Matta-Clark installed an industrial waste container between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York?s SoHo district. He collected discarded doors and pieces of timber and divided the interior into three openings. This piece records an opening-day site performance by the artist, Tina Girouard, Keith Sonnier, and other friends.

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Fresh Kill

May 09, 1972

Fresh Kill

1972 13 min 1 vues

This film records the complete process of the destruction of Matta-Clark's truck (which he called "Herman Meydag") by a bulldozer in a rubbish dump. Part of 98.5, a compilation of films by Ed Baynard, George Schneemar and Charles Simons, this piece was shown in Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany. Camera: Burt Spielvogel, Rudy Burkhardt. Producer: Holly Solomon, Burt Spielvogel.

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Office Baroque

Jun 01, 1977

Office Baroque

1977 44 min 1 vues

Matta-Clark made a cut in a five-story commercial building located in front of the Steen, a tourist spot in Antwerp. (On Matta-Clark's death shortly after, an attempt was made to save the work as a future museum of contemporary art, but the building was demolished.)

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Clockshower

May 09, 1973

Clockshower

1973 13 min 1 vues

In this film of one of his most daring performances, Matta-Clark climbed to the top of the Clocktower in New York and washed, shaved and brushed his teeth while suspended over the streets in front of the huge clockface.

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Day's End

May 09, 1975

Day's End

1975 24 min 1 vues

In May 1972, Matta-Clark worked on an abandoned pier in New York for two months, where he cut sections of the door, floor, and roof. Camera: Betsy Susler.

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Tree Dance

May 09, 1971

Tree Dance

1971 10 min 1 vues

For the exhibition Twenty-Six by Twenty Six at the Vassar College of Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matta-Clark created a performance inspired by spring fertility rituals. He performed in a structure made of ladders, ropes and other materials, which he built at the top of a large tree.

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Automation House

May 10, 1972

Automation House

1972 33 min 1 vues

Automation House 1972, 32 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video This tape is an exercise in spatial perception, using mirror reflections of people and their movements. Producer: Carlotta Schoolman

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Substrait (Underground Dailies)

May 10, 1976

Substrait (Underground Dailies)

1976 35 min 1 vues

In this film, Matta-Clark explored and documented the underground spaces of New York City. The artist chose a range of sites (New York Central railroad tracks, Grand Central Station, 13th Street, Croton Aqueduct in Highgate, etc.) to show the variety and complexity of the underground spaces and tunnels in the Metropolitan area.

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Fire Child

Jan 01, 1971

Fire Child

1971 10 min 1 vues

In 1971 Matta-Clark produced works for the exhibition Brooklyn Bridge Event. This film records his process of making a sculpture - a small wall made of rubbish, waste paper and tin cans collected from the area. —EAI

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Sauna View

Mar 29, 1973

Sauna View

1973 62 min 1 vues

Matta-Clark made a video of his friends having a sauna; he later cut a section of the sauna to reveal the structure of the wall.

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Chinatown Voyeur

Apr 23, 1971

Chinatown Voyeur

1971 60 min 1 vues

This space and texture work, created specifically for video, is a tour of the skyline and domestic interiors of New York's Chinatown.

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Food

Sep 18, 1972

Food

1972 43 min 1 vues

This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists' community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s.

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