Gordon Matta-Clark - Office Baroque / Open House (1972 / 1977)
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Open House 1972, 41 min, color, silent, Super 8
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.
Office Baroque 1977, 44 min, b&w and color, sound
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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