Carol Goodden
Carol Goodden | |
|---|---|
| Born | London |
| Known for | Photography, Dance |
| Notable work | Trisha Brown Dance Company (founding member), FOOD |
Carol Goodden (also known as Caroline Goodden Ames)[1] is a New York based artist and dancer known for her photography and participation in Trisha Brown's dance company. She was also the co-founder of the artist-run restaurant, FOOD where she was the main investor.
Biography
[edit]Goodden was born in London, UK during World War II and was a world traveler.[2] In the 1970s, she was in New York where she worked as a documentary photographer and dancer.[3] In 1995, she moved to New Mexico.[4] Here she met and married John Denys McCoy, a filmmaker and philatelist, and the grandson of N.C. Wyeth.[citation needed]
Work
[edit]Much of Goodden's photography documented the ephemeral art work of the 1970s New York art scene. She became an artistic collaborator with her boyfriend and fellow artist, sculptor Gorden Matta-Clark.[5] Goodden documented his art, such as tagging hair clumps and tying them to a wire cage which she later photographed.[6] for Hair (1972)[7] She also documented Matta-Clark's Jacks in 1971.[8] Because of the ephemeral nature of Matta-Clark's art, documentation was important for understanding what the art looked like.[9]
Dance and performance
[edit]Goodden was a founding member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970.[10] Goodden was a participant in many of Trisha Brown's dance performances.[11] In April 1970, she was part of the original cast of Brown's Leaning Duets which took place near Wooster Street in New York City.[12] In 1973, she danced in Raft Piece, Spanish Dance and Scallops, the last of which was performed at the Festival d'Automne in the Musee Gallera in Paris on October 6.[12] In 1974, she performed Figure 8 with Brown's troupe in Rome at the Contemporanea Festival on January 2, and on June 2, she danced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Drift.[12] In 1977, she conducted a series of poetry readings at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).[13]
Like her documentation of Matta-Clark, Goodden also documented dance performances such as Brown's 1971 Walking on the Wall[14] and other routines[15] such as Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.[16]
FOOD
[edit]FOOD was founded in 1971 by Goodden, Matta-Clark, Suzanne Harris and Rachel Lew.[17] Goodden had been hosting artistic-themed dinner parties for friends, such as flora-themed dinner event where the guests dressed as edible flowers.[4] She found that the idea of creating a restaurant that served fresh food in a communal setting appealed to her.[18] Goodden received money from her family to invest in FOOD. Matta-Clark considered it to be a "restaurant around the idea of an art project."[19] She documented FOOD through photography.[20]
FOOD only lasted about three years.[21] However, in that time and under the direction of Goodden, Matta-Clark and Tina Girouard who was part of FOOD the first year, when Suzanne Harris and Rachel Lew dropped out shortly after the running of FOOD began, it became an important artistic hub.[22] While Goodden was in charge, she and others helped create a sense of "cohesion within the community and infrastructure to support it."[23] Goodden "curated" many different artists who worked at FOOD full-time or sporadically, depending on an artists' schedule.[24] She made sure that the artist-chefs were paid well and had flexible schedules.[24] Goodden's philosophy in running FOOD was to provide a place where artists could work for a fair wage and have a flexible schedule changed the nature of art-production itself, moving it away from institutional spaces or gallery-spaces and into a new arena: the kitchen.[23]
Matta-Clark became bored with FOOD when the novelty of working there waned for him, which started to happen by 1972.[24] Goodden began to feel "overwhelmed by the managerial duties" for which she became almost solely responsible[25] until she hired Kushner as an assistant manager.[24] In addition, FOOD did not make money for its owners[26] and Goodden nearly lost her family inheritance by investing in the restaurant.[27] Goodden had hoped that even though she provided the bulk of the money for FOOD that more people would help share in the work "for the benefit of all" and that the project itself could be sustainable.[24] However, the restaurant closed its doors in 1974. Goodden wrote, "Though we consumed food, Food consumed us."[4]
Anarchitecture
[edit]Goodden was a member of the Anarchitecture group which met and showed work in New York.[22] While Anarchitecture is often solely associated with Matta-Clark, "it had a broad membership of equally significant artists, including Laurie Anderson, Tina Girouard, Carol Goodden, Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Bernard Kirschenbaun, Richard Landry and Richard Nonas among others."[28] Anarchitecture was formed in 1973 and met weekly until 1974.[8] The Anarchitecture show critiqued the ideas behind art and especially architecture and land ownership.[28] Goodden's photographs, along with fellow Anarchitecture members was shown at the Greene gallery in March, 1974.[29] The anonymous Anarchitecture show critiqued the unchanging nature or "stasis" of the architecture of the time.[30] Some of the ideas surrounding the themes in Anarchitecture were derived from the loss of Goodden's fortune, leading to the use of the slogan, "Nothing Works."[28]
Recent work
[edit]In 2013, Goodden came back to cook during the Frieze Art Fair in New York.[2] Curator, Cecilia Alemani commissioned a project to "recreate" FOOD during the fair.[31] Goodden prepared her own recipes, Carrot Soup Español and Cauliflower Cress Soup, on May 10, 2013, for the Frieze Art Fair.[2]
Goodden has continued to provide artistic direction and historical reference to art from the period of time surrounding FOOD and Anarchitecture.[32]
References
[edit]- ^ Lee, Pamela M. (1999). Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262122207. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ a b c "Frieze Frame: FOOD 1971". The SoHo Memory Project. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ Waxman, Lori (2008). "The Banquet Years: FOOD, A SoHo Restaurant" (PDF). Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. 8 (4): 24–33. doi:10.1525/gfc.2008.8.4.24. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ^ a b c Kennedy, Randy (21 February 2007). "When Meals Played the Muse". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ "The Materialization of Life into Alternative Economies". Ben Kinmont. April 1996. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Walker, Stephen (2009). "Discipline". Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1845119669.
- ^ Goodden, Carol. "Gordon Matta-Clark Hair, 1972 by Carol Goodden". Blacksquare (Photograph). Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Gordon Matta-Clark: 'You Are the Measure'" (PDF). Moca Grand Avenue. 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Janku, Laura Richard (January 2008). "The Anarchitectures of Matta-Clark and Eliasson". Artus (21): 18–21. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Trisha Brown". Impossible Objects. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ "Peter Moore". Paula Cooper Gallery. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ a b c "Trisha Brown Dance Company" (PDF). Trisha Brown Dance Company. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ "MoMA PS1 Exhibition History". MoMA. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ "Cultural Pioneers and Urban Salvagers of the Downtown Scene, ca. 1970s". Art Tattler International. 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Goodden, Carol. "Trisha Brown, Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, SoHo, 1970". Walker Art (Photograph). Archived from the original on 5 March 2015. Retrieved 2 Jun 2015.
- ^ Bernardi, Guillaume (2008). "Trisha Brown's L'Orfeo: Postmodern Meets Baroque". The Opera Quarterly. 24 (3–4): 286–292. doi:10.1093/oq/kbp033. S2CID 191587393. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ Swanson, Carl (5 May 2013). "Why Food (the Restaurant) Is the Talk of the 2013 Frieze Art Fair". Vulture. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ Louie, Elaine (10 May 2013). "In Celebration of Food, and Art". Diner's Journal: The New York Times Blog on Dining Out. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Battaglia, Andy (2 May 2013). "The Original Artisanal Food". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Bußmann, Klaus; Muller, Markus, eds. (1999). FOOD, an exhibition by White Columns (PDF) (in English and German). Koln, Germany: Walter Konig. ISBN 3887891333. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Corbett, Rachel (7 May 2013). "7 of History's Most Mouth-Watering Artist-Run Restaurants". Artspace. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ a b Awan, Nishat; Schneider, Tatijana; Till, Jeremy (2011). Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture. New York: Routledge. pp. 94–95. ISBN 9780415571920. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ a b Schaafsma, Ben (November 2008). "Other Options: A Closer Look at FOOD". Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (6). Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Schaafsma, Benjamin J. (2008). "Other Options: Artists Re-Interpreting, Altering and Creating Infrastructure That Affects Their Everyday Lives" (PDF). InCUBATE. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Scavone, Enzo (12 December 2013). "When Artists Lived In SoHo: A Look Back at the Restaurant FOOD by Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden". Untapped Cities. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ^ "Food Curated by Catherine Morris". Gallery 400. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Kimmelman, Michael (23 February 2007). "Cross Sections of Yesterday". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ a b c Ursprung, Philip (22 November 2012). "Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Legacy of the 1970s" (PDF). Gazette. 17. doi:10.1017/S1359135512000115. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ Johung, Jennifer (2008). "Replacements: From the Primordial Hut to the Digital Network" (PDF). Helen Mirra. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Parry, Ben (2011). "Rethinking Intervention". In Parry, Ben (ed.). Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1846317514.
- ^ Wilkinson, Isabel (9 May 2013). "The Best Things to See at Frieze Art Fair NY 2013". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Blanscube, Michel (3 July 2014). "Inhabiting Time". Fundacion Jumex Arte Contemporaneo. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.