Pier Groups - A Conversation with Jonathan Weinberg

Something Possible Everywhere: Pier 34 NYC 1983-84 Presentation as digital slideshow projection with audio.

Sterzing, Andreas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-8589, Weinberg, Jonathan and Wortzel, Sasha (2019) Pier Groups - A Conversation with Jonathan Weinberg. In: Pier Groups - A Conversation with Jonathan Weinberg, 5/5/2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Abstract / Summary

To mark the publication of Jonathan Weinberg’s provocative new book Pier Groups, the author speaks with artists Andreas Sterzing and Sasha Wortzel about art, sexuality, and the New York waterfront from the 1970s to the present. In light of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, the conversation explores how the area has changed since the 1970s and highlights the artists’ personal recollections of the piers and New York City over the past fifty years.

Following Stonewall, the Hudson River piers and surrounding Meatpacking District became a site of exploration and experimentation for queer artists. Pier Groups (Penn State Press) weaves together interviews, documentary photographs, literary texts, artworks, and film stills to show how avant-garde practices competed and mingled with queer identities along the Manhattan waterfront. Part memoir, part art history, the book is a document of the artistic and sexual expression that characterized—and ultimately transformed—the neighborhood where the Whitney now stands.

In Chapter 6: "Something Possible Everywhere" Jonathan Weinberg talks about Andreas Sterzing's work at Pier 34, and illustrates this chapter with numerous of his photographs and portraits of the artists working at the Pier in 1983-84.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Subjects:	Creative Art & Design > Fine Art Creative Art & Design > Photography History, Geography & Environment
Courses by Department:	The Institute of Photography
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Andreas Sterzing
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2019 12:56
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2024 15:36
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/3242

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