Open Hearing [electronic resource].

Primary Information Art Workers Coalition 2008

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Open Hearing is a monumental collection of statements originally published in the wake of the first public meeting of the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC), at the School of Visual Arts in New York on April 10, 1969. The meeting was billed as “an open public hearing […] regarding museum reform” and the establishment of a program for the AWC, in which any and all art workers were invited to “testify.” It was a consummation of the group’s inception that January, in which the urgency of its foundational concerns and its potency as a rallying point for diverse critical voices were made manifest. Open Hearing is both a document and an extension of that watershed event, consisting of texts collected from a number of the participants as well as transcriptions of the proceedings. The publication was to “be freely circulated and is intended to form a solid basis for a permanent organization designed to represent the best interests of all art workers.” Its topics, as broadly outlined in the publication itself, range from black and Puerto Rican artists’ rights, to the reform and renunciation of “museums and art institutions,” to the structure of the AWC itself. Open Hearing preserves a sweeping, manifold collective declamation, whose tangible resonance is a testament to its own continuing importance. Participating artists are Carl Andre, Architects’ Resistance, Robert Barry, Gregory Battcock, Jon Bauch, Ernst Benkert, Don Bernshouse, Gloria Greenberg Bressler, Selma Brody, Bruce Brown, Bob Carter, Frederick Castle, Rosemarie Castoro, Michael Chapman, Iris Crump, John Denmark, Joseph Di Donato, Mark Di Suvero, George Dworzan, Farman, Hollis Frampton, Dan Graham, Chuck Ginnever, Bill Gordy, Alex Gross, Hans Haacke, Clarence Hagin, Harvey, Gerry Herman, Frank Hewitt, D. Holmes, Robert Huot, Ken Jacobs, Joseph Kosuth, David Lee, Naomi Levine, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Tom Lloyd, Lee Lozano, Len Lye, James McDonald, Edwin Mieczkowski, Minority A, Vernita Nemec, Barnett Newman, John Perr
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Art criticism
Art--Economic aspects
Artists' writings
Conceptual art
Political art

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Art Workers Coalition
Carl Andre
Architects’ Resistance
Robert Barry
Gregory Battcock
Jon Bauch
Ernst Benkert
Don Bernshouse
Gloria Greenberg Bressler
Selma Brody
Bruce Brown
Bob Carter
Frederick Castle
Rosemarie Castoro
Michael Chapman
Iris Crump
John Denmark
Joseph di Donato
Mark di Suvero
George Dworzan
Farman
Hollis Frampton
Dan Graham
Chuck Ginnever
Bill Gordy
Alex Gross
Hans Haacke
Clarence Hagin
Harvey
Gerry Herman
Frank Hewitt
D. Holmes
Robert Huot
Ken Jacobs
Joseph Kosuth
David Lee
Naomi Levine
Sol LeWitt
Lucy Lippard
Tom Lloyd
Lee Lozano
Len Lye
James McDonald
Edwin Mieczkowski
Minority A
Vernita Nemec
Barnett Newman
John Perreault
Stephen Phillips
Lil Picard
Peter Pinchbeck
Joanna Pousette-Dart
Barbara Reise
Faith Ringgold
Steve Rosenthal
Theresa Schwarz
Seth Siegelaub
Gary Smith
Michael Snow
Anita Steckel
Carl Strueckland
Gene Swenson
Julius Tobias
Jean Toche
Ruth Vollmer
Iain Whitecross
Jay Wholly
Ann Wilson
Wilbur Woods