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Contemporary Art (Franklin Furnace Archives)
Overview
ARTstor has collaborated with Franklin Furnace to share an additional 3,345 images and documentation of events presented and produced by the renowned venue, with the goal of embedding the value of ephemeral practice into art and cultural history. The collection consists of documentation of artists' books, performance art, site-specific works, and other time-based ephemeral arts.
Since its founding as an "alternative space" in 1976, Franklin Furnace has presented what has come to be known as "variable media" art - works that take on new dimensions in each iteration, varying in the meanings they take on contextually, as well as in their physical deployment. As such, Franklin Furnace's institutional archives offer a rare and valuable resource that captures the moment, the concept of the artist, and the historical context in which the work was created. Artists represented in the archive include Guillaume Bijl, Willie Cole, Karen Finley, Teh-Ching Hsieh, Liza Lou, Robbie McCauley, Ana Mendieta, and Shirin Neshat. There is also documentation of performances and exhibitions from the organization's first decade.
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 5,000 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 67% |
| Search terms | franklinfurnace |
| Collection URL | http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/franklinfurnace |
* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.
Last updated: June 20, 2011
Image Credits
Lorraine O'Grady, Fly By Night, 2/10/1983. This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
