Struggle in New York – Борба у Њујорку
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- Struggle in New York – Борба у Њујорку
- 1976
- 16mm film transferred to digital, b&w, sound
- 56min, 33sec
“Struggle in New York” is a 56-minute black and white film that Zoran Popović realized on 16 mm stock in New York during November of 1976. It amounts to an X-ray of the confrontational political avant-garde art scene that was active in New York that year. The contribution by the International Local group (Sarah Charlesworth, Joseph Kosuth, Anthony McCall) is about the status of collectives in the art world; Artists Meeting for Cultural Change read their manifesto “Boycott this Museum,” aimed at the Whitney Museum; Ian Burn from Art & Language reads a report on a right-wing political coup in Australia and discusses the possibility of organizing international anti-imperialist solidarity; Jill Breakston, Michael Corris, Preston Heller, and Andrew Menard (Red-Herring group) analyze the metastasis of the contemporary art industry in the US; Art & Language members, including Cathryn Bigelow and Mel Ramsden, perform with the band Red Krayola, singing a song dedicated to Plekhanov and announcing that “most of the power and clout in the art world is in the hands of fascists of one kind or another”; there are also scenes from the studio life of union activists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, and one sees a presentation of the journal The Fox. The final scene shows an Art & Language quotation: “...and now for something completely different.” S.Bo.