Coleen Fitzgibbon (born 1950) is an American

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artist associated with Collaborative Projects, Inc. (a.k.a.

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). She worked under the

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Colen Fitzgibbon between the years 1973-1980. Fitzgibbon currently resides on

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and in

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Career history

Fitzgibbon was a student of 1960s

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ist cinema at the

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and the Whitney Independent Study Program where she studied with Owen Land (aka “ George Landow”),

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Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

, Carolee Schneemann and

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. Fitzgibbon worked on film and sound projects for

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the natu ...

, Gordon Matta-Clark and Les Levine. Fitzgibbon formed the collaborative ''X&Y'' project with

Robin Winters Robin Winters (born 1950 in Benicia, California) is an American conceptual artist and teacher based in New York. Winters is known for creating solo exhibitions containing an interactive durational performance component to his installations, som ...

in 1976 and helped form the

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project called ''The Offices of Peter Fend, Fitzgibbon,

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces and includes large-scale installations, advertising billboards, ...

, Peter Nadin,

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and

'' in 1979 (the same year she performed at ''Public Arts International/Free Speech''). She co-founded the New York-based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (

) in 1977, along with forty plus artists. She was president of

during the formation of '' The Times Square Show''. Fitzgibbon and Alan W. Moore created an 11:41-minute film in 1978 (finished in 2009) of a No Wave concert to benefit Colab called ''X Magazine Benefit'', documenting performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC in the late 1970s. Shot in black and white Super 8 and edited on video, the film captures the gritty look and sound of the music scene during that era. In 2013 it was exhibited in 2009 at the Salon 94 art gallery in New York City. Fitzgibbon has also screened her work at international film festivals, museums and galleries, including: the

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, Hunter College,

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, Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels,

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London, Anthology Film Archives, Light Industry in New York City,

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in Amsterdam,

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, and Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles. Fitzgibbon appears in an on-camera interview in the 2017 documentary film '' Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat'' by

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that contains extensive coverage of

, ''

The Real Estate Show The Real Estate Show was a squatted exhibition by New York artists' group Colab, on the subject of landlord speculation in real estate held on New Year's Day (January 1, 1980) in a vacant city-owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower Ea ...

'', '' The Times Square Show'' and ABC No Rio.

Filmography

*Land of Nod (1992/2013) *SYBAR (1975/2012) *Der Spiegel (1976/2011) *Document (Public Records) (1976/2011) *Lower East Side (LES) (1976/2011) *Dictionary (1975/2011) *Daily News (1974/2011) *I.S. Migration (1974/2010) *Money (C. Perlman and Coleen Fitzgibbon) (1996) *Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min. (1975) *TIME (Cover to Cover) (1975) *FM/TRCS (1974) *Internal System (1974) *Beach (2012) *Rose Selavee (2012) *Make A Movie (1974/2011) *Trip to Carolee (1973/2011) *Portraits 71 -72 (1972/2011) *Found Film Flashes (1973) *Gym (1973)

Documentaries

*East Village Artists (1990/2012, video) *Peter Fend at Essex Street Gallery (1990-2012) *X-Magazine Benefit (1978/2009) *Far East Memories: Interview With Hiroshi Teshigahara (1990) (Complete) *L.M. (1990) *Virgin Beauty On Ludlow (1989)

Footnotes

References

* Carlo McCormick, ''The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984'', Princeton University Press, 2006. * Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. '' ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery'' New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985. * Masters, Marc. ''No Wave''. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007. * Pearlman, Alison, ''Unpackaging Art of the 1980s''. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2003. * Taylor, Marvin J. (ed.). ''The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984'', foreword by Lynn Gumpert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. *

External links

Fitzgibbon official website
*Interview with P. Adams Sitne

*Coleen Fitzgibbon on Vime

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