White Columns
Non-profit alternative art space in downtown New York City. Found in 1970, White Columns was located in a series of derelict and semi-derelict buildings throughout the 1980's. The venue became notorious both for its relative squalor and for the freedom it provided artists, providing a "blank slate" for early practitioners of action art and relational aesthetics. [1] Active in the experimental music scene, White Columns' monthly Night of the Living Noise series served as the definitive showcase for the New York power electronics scene, showcasing groups oft not welcomed elsewhere, including local the sonic miscreants Borbetomagus, Scraping Foetus of the Wheel, and Black Screen o'Death.
- ↑ Perhaps most notoriously Vito Acconci who, in 1971, battled an angry rooster to the death in a piece called Combination.