The exhibition is called "Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives 1961 - 1991." "Downtown" is not just a location marker; by now it is a symbol, a keyword. In fact, the quintessentially "Downtown" play depicted on the sidebar to the right was not staged in downtown New York City at all.
Exhibition site: http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/downtown%20pix/dphome.html
One panel had vivid stills from Carolee Schneemann's performance art piece, Meat Joy.
Attractive, almost-naked people rolling over each other, smearing skins with raw chicken, fish, sausages, paint ... The word "Dionysian" is used at some point in the exhibition description.
I had to walk away from David Wojnarowicz's allocated spot because I was tearing up. There was a letter from a doctor diagnosing Peter Hujar with AIDS, and W. had drawn headless, legless torsos of two topless men kissing on the upper-right corner. I had seen Hujar's death photos up close before, but that plain piece of office paper was more powerful than a space full of gelatin prints.
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