1980'S NEW HAVEN ARTISTS UNITED-ONLINE ARCHIVE | ***FYI: I worked on this post as a way to prepare for the exhibit at the New Haven Museum | Facebook

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FYI: I worked on this FB post in 2019 as a way to prepare for the exhibition at the New Haven Museum, Ct.

It is has over 50 IMAGES with INFORMATION LINKS.

Documenting the exhibit in a post....

PMVI "The First Show of 1984"

"1984 began early in New Haven when 700 people waited in the cold two weeks ago to see a multi-media art show based on the themes of Orwell's novel. Sponsored by the Papier Mache Video Institute, the show was held in a large industrial loft off Hamilton Street. By most accounts, it was a smashing success. It certainly wasn't just another white wine and cheese affair..." Mary Beth Bruno, New Haven Advocate Vol. X No.15 November 23, 1983

FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://mymuseumess.blogspot.com/2013/08/1984.html...

Jason Bischoff-Wurstle, Bill Kraus, Gorman Bechard

Article about the Factory Exhit at New Haven Mixed Use

Mixed Use

"Covering nearly two city blocks along Hamilton Street, the massive space, where untold New Haveners produced and assembled timepieces, became the perfect place for those who preferred to fly under the radar. Among them were the Papier Mache Video Institute (PMVI), founded in 1978 by Paul Rutkovsky, an artist and a fellow at Harvard’s Institute for the Study of the Avant-Garde, and later taken up by experimental artist Beverly Richey. She created a legendary one-day exhibition at the factory in 1983 titled 1984, which 700 visitors lined up to see. PMVI took on the issues of the day—issues not likely to be addressed by mainstream galleries and museums—including “feminism, war, capitalism, elitism, Urban Renewal and ‘TV mono-culture.’” Artifacts of the group’s life inside the factory are on view in Factory, including video footage of multimedia installations (made, in part, of papier mâché), a performance piece on “how to draw a sink” and artists at work and in video portrait closeups.