The book is in three parts
01
research
The author’s life as a critic, then as an artist with Collaborative Projects, up to the Times Square Show of 1980.
02
Concept
The author’s film and video productions with Colab’s Potato Wolf cable TV series, then the foray into artists video distribution with the MWF Video Club
03
The proyect
Colab after the Times Square Show, the East Village art gallery movement, related artists organizations like the Rivington School; 21st century coda
Doing Time in the New York Artworld by Alan W. Moore
Alan W. Moore wrote for Artforum and Art-Rite in the mid-1970s, then joined the artists’ group Colab early on. He organized the Real Estate Show and ABC No Rio, and participated in the Times Square Show in 1980. Writing and typing for the East Village Eye, Moore had a ringside seat at the downtown New York art show.
As a video artist during the No Wave era and after, he produced numerous shows for Colab’s artists’ TV series, then launched the MWF Video Club artists’ distribution project which persisted until 2002.
In the ‘90s he took a PhD in art history, and published Art Gangs in 2011, a history of NYC artists’ collectives from 1969 to 1984.
From a wet-behind-the-ears critic in 1974 to a precarious academic 25 years later, this memoir charts some 30 years in New York City’s art world. For the author, this gradually became a political world as first Reagan and then the Bushes took over the country’s government and wrought their dire mischiefs.
Since 2006, he has been researching squatting in Europe, and lives in Madrid. He published Occupation Culture, detailing these researches, in 2015. Now he is back in the States to face up to the past…
