Item #4607 dual installation. CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine, Carol PARKER.
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine; PARKER, Carol

dual installation

New York, United States: Idea Warehouse, 1975. 11,7×16,8 cm. Exhibition invitation card for collaborative installation show by Charlemagne Palestine and Carol Parker. The piece was installed but the show never opened.

Interesting association copy mailed to George Macquinas [sic]. Tactile paper stock. VG+ / Near Fine.

According to Palestine [1981]: one fateful night before a collaborative installation between myself and sculptor Carol Parker was to open, the Idea Warehouse floor caught fire and the space never reopened again. This marks the end of the short life span (about 2 years) of this experimental venue and makes for an eerie document of a lost art piece, resonating with Palestine's recollection [again 1981] of the whole experience of Idea Warehouse: Recalling the Idea Warehouse to my mind, I remember a space of haunted power, seemingly possessed by strange spirits . Any works that took place there seemed to contain something extraterrestrial, almost as though it housed ghost refugees from a seance long ago. I loved that space as did many other people. Spaces like that are almost extinct now.
[Ref: Alternatives in Retrospect, The New Museum, 1981, p. 46].
ID: 4607
Price: €140