The early archives (roughly 1981-1983) are largely implemented by artist members of Collabortive Projects, Inc. (CoLab), the organization’s founding movement. Beginning in 1983 the records are compiled generated archives. It should be noted that CoLab deliberately distanced itself from ABC No Rio for perceived legal reasons - The Real Estate Show was an extra-legal action that CoLab members felt important not to jeopardize the corporation's legal standing. At the time, ABC No Rio was not a legal entity. The facility given to the artists was leased to an individual artist (Rebecca Howland) - Hence the work in this collection itself is the locus where the two groupings connect. From roughly 1983 – 1995 the archives were then maintained with additional compilation of materials under the direction of Peter Cramer and Jack Waters under the auspices of ABC No Rio’s fiscal management, the multi purpose collectively artist-run umbrella organization Allied Productions, Inc.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Manifesto or Statement of
Intent--The Real Estate Show
December, 1979
Statement by the Organizers
of the Real Estate Show
January 5(?), 1980
'New York Post' article on
the Real Estate Show
January 3, 1980
'New York Times' article on
the Real Estate Show
January 9, 1980
'East Village Eye' article
on the Real Estate Show
January, 1980
'East Village Eye' review
of the International Show
September/October, 1980
'New York Post' article about
the 'Animals Living in Cities' show
November 29, 1980
'The ABCs of ABC No Rio And
Its Times'
by Alan Moore and Marc Miller
from the book 'ABC No Rio Dinero', 1985
'Village Voice' review of
'ABC No Rio Dinero' and other books on the East Village Art Scene
September, 1985
'Spatial Deconcentration'
by Yolanda Ward
'World War III Illustrated' #6, 1985
'The Fine Art of Gentrification'
by Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan
'The Portable Lower East Side', Spring, 1987
'Der Spiegel' article about
Fassbinder's 'Trash, the City, and Death'
previewed at ABC No Rio by the Thieves Theater Company
March, 1987
Profile of Rivington Street
by Richard Armijo, from 'East Informer'
July, 1987
'Village Voice' article: Erl
Kimmich / Darius James reading
March 28, 1989
'Village Voice' review of
Roger Vitrac's 'Victor'
directed by Robin Goldsmith at ABC No Rio
October 24, 1989
Article from the zine 'X-posure'
Summer, 1989
'Mirabella' blurb about Matthew
Courtney's Wide-Open Cabaret
March, 1990
Catalogue Text--ABC NO RIO:
TEN YEARS, SEVEN DAYS
Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany
October, 1990
Interview with Jack Waters,
Peter Cramer and Lou Acierno
May, 1991
'Village Voice' article on
the HC/Punk Matinee
December, 1990
Letter to 'MaximumRockandRoll'
referenced in above 'Village Voice' article
November, 1990
Essay by Chris Boarts from
'Slug & Lettuce' #27
September/October, 1992
Essay by Chris Boarts from
'Slug & Lettuce' #32
November, 1993
Essay by Chris Boarts from
'Slug & Lettuce' #35
July, 1994
Essay by Chris Boarts from
'Slug & Lettuce' #36
September, 1994
Essay by Chris Boarts from
'Slug & Lettuce' #37
December, 1994
'The Rise & Fall (&
Rise Again) Of NYC's Only All-Ages Non-Racist, Non-Sexist, Non-Homophobic Punk
Scene'
'JERSEY BEAT' #56, Spring, 1996
'Is ABC No Rio Worth Saving?'
by Donny the Punk
'JERSEY BEAT' #56, Spring, 1996
Reply by Dave Powell to 'Jersey
Beat' articles
'JERSEY BEAT' #58, Fall, 1996
Article on the origin of Blackout
Books
'Temp Slave' #7, 1995
Recollections of 'A Mica Bunker'
at ABC No Rio
compiled & organized by Judy Dunaway
'The Improvisor, The International Journal of Free Improvisation', Volume XI,
1996
'ABC No Rio Fights Eviction
By a Nonprofit' by Claude Solnick
'Manhattan Mirror', October 10, 1995
Article by Steve Wishnia from
'The Shadow' on the effort to evict ABC No Rio
December, 1995
'ABC No Rio Moves Nearer To
Being Ousted' by Michael Haberman
'The Villager', December 13, 1995
Transcript of New York City
Council Subcommittee hearing on inclusion of 156 Rivington Street in L.U. 133096
HAM (Urban Development Action Area Project)
November 14, 1995
Transcript of New York City
Council Subcommittee hearing on inclusion of 156 Rivington Street in L.U. 133096
HAM (Urban Development Action Area Project)
December 6, 1995
Excerpt from GENERAL MUNICIPAL
LAW
URBAN DEVELOPMENT, Article 16
Urban Development Action Area Project (UDAAP)
'Housing Group At Throat Of
ABC No Rio' by Claud Solnick
'Manhattan Mirror', April 20, 1996
'ABC No RIP' by Sarah Ferguson
'Village Voice', October 8, 1996
Article from 'Time Out New
York' on the City's effort to evict Lower East Side cultural centers
October 10, 1996
Reply by Robin Goldsmith to
'Time Out New York' article
October 27, 1996
'5 Arrested in ABC No Rio
Protest' by Michael Haberman
'The Villager', January 22, 1997
'Arts Center Fights Eviction'
by Steve Wishnia
'The Tenant', February, 1997
'Arts Group Wins Eviction
Battle' by Andrew Jacobs
'The New York Times', February 23, 1997
'Spare Some Change?' by Robert
Kolker
'Time Out New York', March 20, 1997
Article on 'Our Unorganicized
Reading' at ABC No Rio
'CUPS', September, 1997
Review of the 'Urban Encounters'
show at the New Museum
'Village Voice', August XX, 1998
'No Future!': C. Carr on Frank's
Depression Poetry commemoration at ABC No Rio
'Village Voice', September 8, 1998
'ABC NO RIO' by John Giglio
'ARTspeak.com', December 23, 1998
Cataloguing Adam Purple's
archives at ABC No Rio
'The New York Times', July 16, 2000
'Community Interactivism'
by Colin Moynihan
'The Industry Standard', September 18, 2000
The records archive includes photographs, color slides, posters, flyers, announcements, press releases, magazine articles, reviews, grant proposals, business files, artworks, and correspondences inclusive of creative project planning, scheduling records, various notes, promotional materials. The archive was built and preserved by Steven Englander from materials preserved, compiled and maintained by Alan Moore, Peter Cramer, and Jack Waters. Because of No Rio’s history as an entirely artist-run organization, there is frequently an overlap of what constitutes administrative documentation and what might be defined as artwork. While conscious of traditional practices, No Rio's critical stance on recognized standards is reflected in its actions, including how activities, events and materials are produced. Further emphasis should be placed on the fluidity of the inter-relationship between legal entities such as CoLab, Allied Productions, Inc., and such unincorporated constructs as the Naked Eye Cinema which originated as “an extension of ABC No Rio’s film program,” while functioning as an autonomous activity well beyond the physical boundaries of No Rio’s Rivington Street facility. Several key artist-managers were active under the rubric of these groupings in simultaneity. Awareness of the flexibility of boundaries and divisions, and the linkages between the activities of these entities are crucial to understanding the nature of the archives they generated.
Arrangement | ||
| The Archive is arranged in a series of 11 Boxes and 6 Flat Boxes. The Boxes are arranged in using folders. | ||
| Oversized Materials are in envelopes in their corresponding box | ||
Open to researchers. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival materials.
Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of ABC No Rio. For more information, contact
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(between Clinton & Suffolk)
Phone: 212.254.3697
Email: abc@abcnorio.org
Visual Arts Database
Media Arts Database
There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.
All records generated under the support of ABC No Rio
The archive was built and preserved by ABC No Rio with Allied Productions, Inc.
Published citations should take the following
form:
Identification of item, date (if known); ABC No Rio Archive; box number; folder
number; ABC No Rio
BOX 1
Summary of Folder Contents:
1) Allied Productions
1986,1989
2)Apple Computer Grant
1983
3) NYSCA Grants
1984,1988
4)Miami Show Artist Notes
1989, artist pricing requests
5)Miami Show
1989, sample invitation
6)Miami Show Correspondence
1988-1989
7)Purdah
1987
8)A. Maclennan
1983, clippings
9)Production Art
Vital Pulse Magazine
10)Production for Events
7 days of Creation, 1st Five Years
11)Other Organizations in NYC
1983,1985, A Queer Kind of Film
12)Other Organizations Outside of NYC
1987-1991
13) Cultural Council Foundation
1983-1986
14) Newsletters
July 1987, Winter 1988
15)Internship & Employment Requests
1986-1988
16)Internship Response & Programs
1986-1987
17)Performance Art Series
1979-1983
18)Event Proposals
1983-1989, Graffiti Rites Too, Faces on the Wall
19)Fiscal
1984-1987, Sheriffs impending levy
20)Correspondence: Other Organizations to ABC No Rio
1984-1986, MoMA requests slides ’84
21)Correspondence: ABC No Rio to Others
1987-1988, Jack Waters’ announces end of his position to NYSCA
22)Agreements & Contracts
1986-1988, Speed Club & Jack Waters
23)Organizational Documents
1980-1991, 1980 calendar, 1991 meeting notes
24)Press Lists
1987
25)Artist Resumes
1987, Leslie Lowe
26)Event Schedules
1981-1988
27)Events
1983, Vote/Veto, non-publicity event related material
28)Event Planning
1986-1987, Temptations, Spring Benefit ’87
29)Publicity Posters (4 folders)
The Bad Actors (5 copies)
Trash the City and Death (22 copies)
In Central America 1983 (2 copies)
Sculpture on Williamsburg Bridge Party (5 copies)
Looks at Books (14 copies)
Massive Group Show (4 copies)
World of Dinosaurs (7 copies)
Wall of Many Faces (10 copies)
Anti-Utopia (1 copy)
Dance Videos 1984 (11 copies)
World Premier of Harrie Hagoman 1984 (25 copies)
Heroes and Heroines (25 copies)
Me and My Shadow 1984 (3 copies)
Performance Sunday April 15 (20 copies)
The Image Reversed 1987 (22 copies)
Paintings by Tony Pinotti (19 copies)
Sunday Evenings (1 copy)
Contemporary Primitive Fashions (1 copy)
Opening for Janice Sloane (6 copies)
The Mother Show 1985 (11 copies)
Vote Veto (10 copies)
Graphics/The Printed Word (13 copies)
Mass Media/Technology 1985 (2 copies)
Teach in/ Paint in (1 copy)
New Films (2 copies)
The Post Industrial Steel Town Series 1987 (25 copies)
The Film (1 copy)
Poetry Fall 1987 (11 copies)
Temptation (1 copy)
Babylon Gloves (1 copy) *oversized
Crackdown on Noise (2 copies) *oversized
In Central America (1 copy) *oversized
Decoding the Roller Coaster 1987 (25 copies) *oversized
30)Meeting Flyers
May 8, 1985 (15)
November 14th (4)
February 26th (7)
January 21st (12)
31)Press Releases
NYSCA Show, Leslie Lowe 1987
32)References to ABC No Rio in other publications
1983-1984, ARTnews ’83
33)Art
“Pentagon” by BenDavid, “Chair”, “TV”, & “Darkness” by Goldberg
Notes:
-Community History Calendar 1980, La Guardia Community College is in Organizational
Documents Folder—could also be in Other NYC Organizations Folder
-East Village Eye & ABC No Rio 1982 Calendar is in Organizational Documents
Folder—could also be in Media Folder
-Sandy Straus piece “Ron Darling Pitches in to Help Tragic Aids Babies &
Apples” ‘89, included in her letter is in Miami Show Artist Notes Folder—could
also be in Media Folder
-Seven Days of Creation Artist list & Richard Hoffman details is in Allied
Productions Folder—could also be in Events Folder
-Stapled papers; letter asking for emergency money, press release, and Dance
Video flyer is in Fiscal Folder—could also be in Publicity Folder
-Cultural Council Foundation Pamphlet is in CCF Folder—could also be in Reference
to ABC No Rio in Other Publications Folder
-*Oversized documents in oversized envelope (1) Publicity
BOX 2
Note- The contents of this box were previously sorted into five folders
in 1991. I maintained the 5 sections and added more folders inside of them.
Box 2/Section 1
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Publicity Posters
ABC No Rio: The First Five Years (3 copies)
Images from Purdah (1 copy)
Girl in Trouble 1988 (4 copies)
Linda Bradford Paintings (2 copies)
Fountain Café (4 copies)
Post-Surfrealism (3 copies)
Art at No Rio 1980-1985 (3 copies)
No Rio Café (1 copy)
Wish You’d Been Here (9 copies)
Seventh Anniversary Benefit 1987 (7 copies)
HEAL Benefit (1 copy) *Allied Productions
Temptations 2 1986 (1 copy)
No Rio Noise Party (1 copy)
Haunt the House (4 copies)
Double Feature 1988 (3 copies)
Stephen Miller & Susana Carlson 1984 (1 copy)
Film Show 1984 (1 copy)
Erotic Psyche Oct 26 (1 copy)
Erotic Psyche Dec 3 (2 copies)
Erotic Psyche Dec 3-21 (2 copies)
Erotic Psyche Three Transmedia Performances (1 copy) *note to Jack on back
Erotic Psyche April 3 (1 copy)
The Haunted Circus (1 copy)
Love Puppies Eat From My Bowl (1 Copy)
Flash 1985 (3 copies)
Variation on Discord of Divisions 1984 (1 Copy)
White Knights in Living Color (1 Copy) (2 cards)
Out of Harms Way (2 copies)
Graffiti Rites (2 copies)
A Brain Wavin Cabaret (4 copies)
Bugout Society (3 copies)
Transit Paintings (1 copy)
FAT (2 copies)
Mary Eve Minieka (1 copy)
New York Artists in Residence (1 copy) *Miami Show
Pixel Picture (3 copies)
Lorna Bieber & Judy Blum 1984 (3 copies)
An Evening of Films…Benefit (1 copy)
Equinox (2 copies)
The Grand Canyon (3 copies) *oversized
The Grand Canyon (2 copies)
Myths in Contemporary Settings (1 copy)
Anotonio & Mellida (1 copy)
Khris Kdisan, Jeff Wright… (1 copy)
Colorado Artists Call Organizers 1984 (1 copy)
Hunk Reading & Tribute to the Boros (1 copy)
Two Days of Outrage 1988 (1 copy)
SAMi & Jennifer Blowdryer June 23 (1 copy)
Quien Me la Mando (1 copy)
Borbetomagus (5 copies)
One Week of/ Exotic/ and/ Mundane/ Events (1 copy)
Sculpture Brainwash 1984 (1 copy)
2)Organizational Documents
1980-1989, Contract between Waters & Stoddard
3)Event not Publicity
1985-86, Heroes & Heroines Schedule
4)Schedule
1988-89
5)Press Release
The Negotiation Table
6)Fiscal
1980-81, ’80 annual charities report
7)Events @ Other Locations
Cleopatra, Real Estate Show*
8)Miscellaneous
1984, Psychodrama
9)No Rio in Other Publications
Cover 1980 on Real Estate Show
10)Artist Resume
11)Meetings
1988-1989
Box 2/ Section 2
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)No Rio in Other Publications
1982-1989, Art Forum ’84, East Village Eye ’82… *some oversized
2) Production
1983,1986
Box 2/ Section 3
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Press Releases
1986-89, Miami Show*, Trash, the City, & Death
2)Publicity Posters
Film Show 1984 (1 copy)
Runway Entertaining (10 copies)
Art as an Act of Liberation (1 copy) *political prisoner
Closing (13 copies)
Richard Hoffman 1983 (3 copies)
3)Show Proposals to No Rio
1984-1986, Artists Underground
4)Organizational
1984-1987
5)Fiscal
1981-1988, Budget
6)Schedule
1982-1988
7)Production
1986, Meeting flyers, Naked Eye
8)Event not publicity
1983, Wish You’d Been Here, In Central America
9)NYSCA
1984-1988, budget
10)Newsletter
1988
11)Educational Programs
1985, Marta Valle Junior High School
12)NEA Grant Proposals
1986, supporting documents (disorganized)
13)Correspondence
1986-1988
Box 2/ Section 4
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Benefit 1987
Program, notes, correspondence
2)Auction 1989
Artist lists, pricing, documents from 1985 auction
3)Meeting Minutes
1984-1987
4)NEA Grant
1982-1983
5)Fiscal
1984-1989, Balance Sheets
6)NYSCA Grant
1982, supporting materials
7)Benefit 1985
Notes, Correspondence, prices
Box 2/ Section 5
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Art against Apartheid
1989, Notes, Articles, Posters, Photo of Emma Amos Painting
2)Art Parade
1983, publications, programs
3)The Edge: Group Show
1984, posters, notes
4)Vote Veto
1984,posters, notes, contract with Oldenberg
5)Extremist Manifesto
1983, posters, notes
6)Photo Copies of Posters and Images
Portrait Show, Crime Show, Body Show, Avant Squares, Cara Perlman, The Positive
Show, Construct the City of the Future, Marc Brasz Paintings, Real Estate Show
7) Poetry Series
1984-1987, NYSCA Grant for Poetry Budget, notes
8) Grants for Educations Programs
1982-1986, NYFA, NYSCA, Helena Rubenstein
Pre-existing Inner Folder
1)7 Days of Creation
1983, photos, planning, grant proposal
2)Press Release
1984, bilingual*
3)Miscellaneous photocopies of photos
Gentrification, bilingual*
4)Publicity Posters
Suburbia 1983 (2 copies)
Note For Sale (1 copy)
Beauty 1982 (2 copies)
The Island of Negative Utopia (1 copy)
5)Event Planning
1983-1984, Untold Stories & Looks at Books
6)Schedules
1983-1984
7)Naked Eye Cinema
1986
Notes:
-General overlap of Schedule Folder and Press Release Folder (press releases
are predominantly schedules)
-NYSCA Grant Proposal for Poetry Series is in Poetry Series Folder—could also
be in NYSCA Folder
-1981-1982 budget is in Fiscal Folder—on backside is “Its War at No Rio” poster
and could also be in Publicity Posters Folder
-Letter on behalf of No Rio from Assemblyman Sheldon Silver to NYSCA is in Correspondence
Folder—could also be in NYSCA Folder
-Extremist Manifesto folder contains some handwritten documents and painted
flyers—could be original art
-Drawing on back of “The Possibilities of Limitations” press release in Press
Release folder—could be original art
-Oversized documents are in oversized envelope (2) Press & Posters
BOX 3
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Fiscal (3 folders)
1983-1990, Receipts
2)Cult X Change
1990, Toronto, Hamburg, correspondence, publicity
3)Event Posters
Bowdoin College (2)
September with Amica Bunker (1)
Saturday Matinee 1990 (1)
Germania Death in Berlin (1)
Gary Vosbein (1)
Sponge Head (2)
Robin Goldsmiths Sweet 16 (1)
The Silent Treatment Party (1)
Change of Face (1)
Rattle your Rage (1)
Go! & Krak (1)
Toyo Tsuhiya 1989 (1)
Audio Letter (2)
4)Events not Publicity
1989-1990, Spare Parts Program, Easter Slice
5)Poetry
1989, Poems by Claire McMahon, Meltdown
6)Press Release
1989-90, The White Heart
7)Correspondence
1989
8)Misc
9)No Rio Magazine & Newsletter
1989, Meltdown Poetry Magazine, MoMa asks about magazine
10)Rehab Video
11)NEA
1983-1987
12)Associated Projects
1989-1990, Naked Eye, Blackeye, Cultural Politics Discussion Group
13)No Rio Community Outreach for Support
1988
14)Grants
1985-1992
15)Meetings
*Original Painted Show & Tell Flyer
16)No Rio in Other Publications (2 folders)
1984-1990, New Yorker, Village Voice *some oversized
17)Misc No Rio Press (already together)
1984-1989, posters, clippings, correspondence
18)Organizational
1989, Waters Interview
Notes:
*Oversized are in oversized envelope (3) No Rio in Other Publications
*Original painted Show & Tell poster are art
BOX 4
Note: The contents of this box were previously sorted into many folders.
I maintained these sections.
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Artcite (Canada)
1989
2)Fiscal
1986-1990, statements, balance sheets
3)NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association)
1992
4)Programming Events
1984-1988
5)Exhibitions & Events
1991-1994, misc event materials, posters--
Big Dicks Make Me Sweat Productions 1992 (1)
Out & Exposed 1991 (5)
More Damned Christians (1)
No More Nice Girls 1994 (8)
Punk Art Show #2 1994 (2)
Manufactured Myths & Maps (2)
Brotherhood Sisterhood (1)
Lawrence Weiss (3)
Lyyying Community (1)
Boiling Points 1993 (5)
6)Word!
7)Artist Release Forms
1988-1993
8)Rehab Video
1989, NYSCA
9)Punk events
1993
10)Proposals
1992-1994
11)Newsletters (2 Folders)
1988-1992, Cult X Change
12)Cult X Change Newsletter
12)Artist Resumes
13)Liability Lawsuit
1987-1990
14)Board Meeting
1992-1993
15)Tour
1989-1990, Toronto, VA, PA, Stockholm
16)Out & Exposed
17)Events not Publicity
1989-1991
18)Events with Posters
Rally to Save No Rio (1)
Faith Healers (1)
Repeat Offender (1)
Gary Vosbein (1)
Cheap Art (13)
Poetry Meltdown 1989 (1)
Divine Origins (19)
Victor Mingovits (2)
The Bomb & The Banana (12)
Brain Wavin’ Cabaret (15)
Bug Out Society (1)
19)Zines
1990-1991, No Rio, Maximum RockNRoll
20)No Rio in Other Publications
1990
21)Newsletter Production
1991
22)Correspondence
1990-1991, Environmental Control Board
23)Misc
1990
24)Meetings
25)Tompkins Sq Park
Notes:
-Folder 5) Exhibitions & Events contained copies of a Sarita
Dunn photo series, photos by Lawrence Weiss, & the original invitation collage
for Lawrence Weiss—all could be art
BOX 5
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Event Not Publicity
1980, Benefit Schedule, Angela Freemont, Alan Moore
2)Miami Show
1989, Posters, Photos*
3)Press of Miami Show
1989
4)Miami Show Production
1989, original drawings for invites and posters*
5)Newsletter
1991, production
6)Hamburg
1989-1990, Photos*
7)Event Posters
Ten Years 7 Days 1990 (8)
The Heroes of Eros (3)
Island Show 1981 (5)*bilingual
8)Mailing Lists
1988-1991
9)Lou Acierno (video)
1987-1989, Minor Injury Gallery
10)Art
Series of 6 prints from gallery X Change, Hamburg Press Pack/Program Binder,
Hamburg Exhibition Catalogue Brochure, Fly Mural 1997
11)Other Organizations
1988, Gnostic Temple, Mao Tse-Tung
12)Dance Theater Workshop
1989-1990
13) Correspondence
1988-1991
14)No Rio in Other Publications
NAAO Directory 1988
15)Calendar Books 1984,1985,1986,1987
Notes:
-*original photos, drawings and posters are art
BOX 6
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)No Rio in Other Publications
1980-1981
2)Fiscal
1981-1982
3)Housing Issues
1980, meetings, drawings, documents
4)Event not Publicity
1982-1983, Suburbia Show, *Angel Freemont original photos
5)Poetry
1980-1981
6)Press Releases
International Workers Exhibition
7)Correspondence
1979-1985, Letter from the Division of Relocation
8)Event Posters
International Art 1980 (2)
Areno Dogs (2)
The Big View (2)
Bite The Hand That Feeds You Shit (2)
Avant Squares (1)
Time is Us (1)
It’s War at No Rio (1)
Crime Show (1)
Portrait Show (1)
Alternatives (1)
Revolting Theater (1)
No Rio’s Fountain Café (1) *oversized
Suicide/ Murder/ and Junk (1) *original painted
9)Event Posters in Prior Boxes
10)Schedules
11)Misc?
12)Real Estate Show Images
Posters, *Photos by Lawrence Lehmann, *Original Flyer *oversized
13)Real Estate Show Documents
Press Clippings, Letters, Notes
14)Publications w/o mention of No Rio
15)Proposals to No Rio
1983
16)Other Organizations (3 Folders) *3rd folder oversized
1980-1983
This section was kept in pre-separated folders
17) No Rio 1980
Building Department Block & Lot 127 Delaney Micro Fiche
18) No Rio 1981
19) No Rio 1982
20)Meeting Notes for Book
21)Extra Pictures
22)Mounted Xerox Images
23)Misc Book (3 folders)
24)Manuscripts
Greenberg’s experience working with children at No Rio
25)Book Image Dump
Notes:
Oversized are in oversized folder (4)
BOX 7
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)No Rio 1989 (preexisting folder)
Planner, Schedules, Flyers
2)Other Organizations
St Marks Comic, COLAB
3)Artist Resumes/Proposals
1989
4)Liverpool Riots
1981 photos
5)Production
1988-1989, Newsletter *oversized
6)Press Release
1989, Benefit for No Rio
7)No Rio Magazine
1988 *oversized
8)Housing Issues
1989, correspondence, press releases
9)Schedules
1987-1988
10)Organizational
1988, notes, board members
11)Correspondence
1989-1991, NYSCA
12)Lou Acierno-Newspaper Magic Marker Project
13)Lou Acierno-Notes/Rehab
1989, Notes, Video Commune, Bill Syndrome Drawings
14)No Rio in Other Publications
15)Performance(pre-existing folder)
-Leslie Lowe Promotional Cards
-Benefit for Alchemical Theater Poster
-Waters Packet ‘84: Ricordi, Temines, Structures, Folia, Sanitation Celebrations
-1985 Anthology of Open Mike @ No Rio
-Naked Eye Cinema Film Series
-The ACT Performance Project
-Resumes
-Ray Lagenbach
-Armando Arredendo
-Masque Consort
-Lis Kotin
-Pink
-Theater Kathartic
-Jean Loup Msika
-Peter Grzybowski
-Riot Theater-David Wheeler
-James Bucalo
-Howard Firehart
16)Ohio Performers
17)Make Love A Place
1979-1981
18)Event Posters
Shadow (10 posters)
Sanyeso (1 poster)
Conspicuous Consumption Show (oversized)
Cyberpan World Brain 1991 (1 poster)
Mary Eve Minieka (6 cards)
Wide Open Cabaret (6 cards)
Extra Texture (3 cards)
Amica Bunker (7 posters)
Saturday Matinees (4 posters) (5 cards)
Talk is Cheap (3 posters)
Tragic Mulatto (1 card)
Anti Poets (1 poster)
The Dorkestra & Other Peoples Children (2 posters) (2 cards)
Squat or Rot 1991 (3)
61 Productions (2)
God is My Co-Pilot (5 posters)
Brotherhood/Sisterhood (1 poster)
Flagrant Traces (2 posters)
Mofung (2 cards)
Aaron Noble: Confession (5 posters) (9 cards)
White Trash Terror (3 cards) (6 posters)* oversized
Friday May 3rd (4 cards) (1 poster)
Temptation of St. Andrew (3 cards)
No Rio Benefit Weekend (3 posters) *oversized
Rorschach “Animal Rights Benefit” (2 posters)
Born Against 1991 (1 poster)
Benefit (1)
Toyo Tsuchiya 1989 (1)
Bug out Society 1988 (25)
19)Event not Publicity
1984-1991, No Rio Photo Edition #1, Americanos:1987 No Rio Catalogue
20)Board
1991, By Laws, Resignations
21)Fiscal
1991-1992, Budget, Art Appraisals 1989
22)Leslie Lowe
23)Catherine Stine
24)Peter Klushorst
1984, photos
25)Allied Productions/Xeroxes *oversized
Press Book, Jack & Peter, planning
Notes:
-There are two separate folders with all slides and corresponding documentation
-Oversized are in oversized envelopes (5)Event Poster, (6)Allied Productions
Xeroxes, (7) Newsletter Production, (14) Slides & Resumes, (15)Slides &
Resumes, & (16) Slides & Resumes
-1980 & 1984 “yearbooks” in box
BOX 8
Summary of Folder Contents:
1)Building Issues
1980-1990
2)Insurance
1984-1990
3)Building Correspondence
1985-1993, Community Board, Singed Petition about Drug Traffic Problem
4) Materials for the Arts
1986-1992, Donation reports
5)Environmental Control Board
1991-1993, impending levy
6)ConEd
1990-1993, Lawsuit
7)Correspondence about 2nd NoRio Book
1992-1995
8)Misc. Correspondence
1984-1992
9)Correspondence in Support of NoRio
1985-1986, Leslie Lowe
10)Charities Registration
1982-1994
11)Bank Statements
1992-1994
12)Fiscal
1986-1992, General ledgers
13)NYSCA 1979-1980
14)NYSCA 1981-1982
15)NYSCA 1982-1983
16)NYSCA 1983-1984
17)NYSCA 1984-1985
18)NYSCA 1985-1986
19)NYSCA 1986-1987
20)NYSCA 1987-1988
21)NYSCA 1988-1989
22)NYSCA 1989-1990
23)NYSCA 1990-1991
24)NYSCA 1991-1992
25)NYSCA 1992-1993
26)NYSCA 1993-1994
27)Department of Cultural Affairs
1989-1992
28)Bowdoin
1990, college newspaper, flyer
29)Event not Publicity
1980-1992, Abortion a priori, Out & Exposed
30)Proposals to No Rio
1992, Packaging in Inferno
31)Press Release/Kit
1989 press kit
32)Organizational
1990’s, “Changes at No Rio”
33)No Rio Newsletters
1991-1992
34)Meetings
1989-1992
35)No Rio in Other Publications
1986-1990, Vox
36)Schedules
1983-1989
37)Misc?
Flyer for ABC No Rio Diner book ad
38)Proposals from No Rio to City
1980, Cultural Center in 125 Delancy Street
39)Event Posters
Art Auction (1)
Faith Healers (2)
Victor (1)
Poetry Meltdown 1989 (3)
Divine Origins (1)
NYSCA Show 1988 (1)
Ovah & Out (1)
Chris Boarts (1)
Out & Exposed 1992 (3)
Sane Smith (1)
The Traveling Woman 1981 (1)
Cheap Art 1989 (3)
Gary Vosbein 1989 (2)
Silent Treatment Party (1)
Poetry Sundays (1)
Rally to Save No Rio (1)
51 Lounge 1990 (2)
Talk Ugly 1990 (1)
Rehab Video Feb 10th (2)
The White Heart (1)
Repeat Offender 1989 (1)
Open Reading 1989 (1)
Germania Death in Berlin 1989 (1)
Hardcore May 4th 1990 (1)
Sparkly Glam Reading (1)
Cult X Change/ Artist Television Access (2)
Me & My Shadow 1984 (2)
Vote Veto (1)
Semiotics 1985 (1)
Janice Sloane (1)
Contemporary Primitive Fashions (1)
Benefit June 2nd (1)
Yo ABC No Rio (1)
Night of Cherub Rococco Salon (1)
Afterhours Lair (1)
7th Anniversary Party (1)
Lawrence Weiss (1)
Sarita Dunne Political Posters (1)
Notes
- There is a helpful overview of No Rio’s Organizational History from the beginning
to 1995 in folder 7 (Correspondence about 2nd NoRio Book)
- Oversized are in oversized envelope (8) Mathew Courtney’s Wide Open Cabaret
Drawings & (16) Slides & Resumes
BOX 9
Summary of Folder Contents:
(Note: Maintained pre-sorted chronological folders)
1994-1996
1)Schedules
2)Classes
Children’s art class poster
3)Housing/Eviction
Eviction watch, eviction action week, call for blitz
4)Event not publicity
Art for Zapatista movement, contact sheet for Mathew Courtney’s Wide Open Cabaret,
*punk photos
5)Event Posters
Subversive Grpahiz for the Nineties *(9 oversized) (9 cards)
One-Act Festival (1 poster)
This Week’s Specials (3 posters)
Unanswered (3 posters)
Make it Plain (1 poster)
After the Crane (10 posters)
Lyyying Community (13 cards) (14 posters)
5 Lives (5 posters) (7 cards)
There’s a meetin’ goin’ on (3 posters)
Steal this Radio *(2 oversized)
The Exquisite Seduction of Impulse (6 posters)
Eric Drooker Slides *(2 oversized) (2 cards)
Tribal War Records (1 poster)
Dropdead (1 poster)
Saliva (1 poster)
UFA (1 poster)
Benefit March 24th 1995 (1 poster)
Benefit May 26th 1995 (1 poster)
Leave your Machismo at the Door (1 poster)
Punk Show July 21st (1 poster)
Hardcore Punk Matinee August (1 poster)
Nomadic Festival (11 posters)
Whorehouse of Representatives (1 poster)
E.5 Street Café/Jazz Show (2 posters)
Punk Show October 15th (1 poster)
Sunday Night Open Mike (1 poster)
God is my Co-Pilot (4 poster)
Café & Video Showing (1 poster)
Benefit April 6th (3 posters)
Under Siege *( 1 oversized) (7 cards)
World War 3 Goes to Jail (1 poster)
Punk Rock/Hardcore Shows May 10-24 (3 posters)
Sin Rostros (1 poster)
Alternative Senses (1 poster)
Punk Show July 23rd (1 poster)
Final Warning (11 posters)
6)Food Not Bombs
7)Sand Box Magazine
8)Lectures/Readings
Squatting in Spain
9)Event not Publicity
10)Not 1994-1996
(1994-1996 Addendum Folders)
-Event Not Publicity
-Event Posters
Frank’s Depression 1997
1)Frank’s Depression Documents
Poetry, note from Fly, writings
2)Frank’s Depression Images
*Photos
1997-1998
(Maintained pre-sorted inner folders which are marked with *af for already
folder)
1)Original Posters *af
2)Press Release
3)Café Nico Benefit *af
4)Event not Publicity
*Ides of March original program and silk-screening sheet
5)Benefit Punk Shows *af
6)Event Posters
Toshi Makihara & Sean Meehan (1 poster)
COMA May 3-17 1998 (4 posters)
COMA June 14-28 1998 (3 posters)
COMA March 15-April 5 1998 (1 poster)
NC-17 Winter Concert 1997 (4 posters)
Kenta Nagari & Jane Wang (3 posters)
Sabot *(oversized 1 poster)
Beware of the Ides of March (10 posters) *One original silkscreen
The Other Side of the Road (5 posters)
The Edge (4 cards)
Steal this Radio 2nd Birthday (4 posters)
Kung Fu Summer (1 poster) (3 cards) *organizational notes on back
Gart Miles, David Gould…(1 poster)
World War 3 (1 poster)
Women’s Show 3 (1 poster)
Correlation Null (4 posters)
Prosthetic Houses (9 posters)
February Long Haul (1 poster)
Tristan Honsinger (1 poster)
Benefit of Rock-N-Reggae April 7th (1 poster)
The Anti-concept (6 posters)
Mammals of Zod (1 poster) *original drawings
Food not Bombs Benefit (1 poster) *original drawings
Squatting on the Lower East Side (1 poster)
7)Activist Meetings
Unfree trade tour
8)Jack in other Publications
1998-1999
1)Event not Publicity
Pipeline, Texas Show
2)Classes
Free Youth Film Class
3)Meetings
Riot Girl
4)Press Release
5)COMA
6)Grants
NYCH
7)Volunteer
8)No Rio in Other Publications
9)Event packs *af
Friday Bloody Friday & If You are Here, This is For You
10)Events at other NYC Locations
11)Event Posters
Urban Encounters (9 cards)
The Art of Exile (8 cards)
A Night of Improvised Music (11 cards)
2nd Annual Day of Depression (5 cards)
Ode to the Little Giant (6 cards)
Texas Show (5 cards)
Record Explosion (2 cards)
Open House (10 cards)
Plain Brown Paper (25 cards)
Graven Images (7 cards)
All Time Present (4 cards)
No Rio Benefit March 4th (6 cards) (6 posters)
No Rio Benefit March 14th (4 cards)
Free Raga Navy (5 cards)
November 21st (3 cards)
Light Leaks (10 cards)
Four of a Kind (7 cards & smaller promotional cards attached)
Atomik Elementz (2 cards)
Reading Series Feb 28-April 25 (6 cards)
Ten Years of Protest (5 cards) (10 posters)
Pipeline (5 posters)
To Porn or not To Porn (11 posters)
Andy Clausen & Hersch Silvermn (5 cards)
May 21st (1 poster)
Benefit for 13th Street (1 poster)
One Night of Music and Puppetry (1 card)
Record Explosion (1 poster)
No Rio Café Road show (1 poster)
Benefit for No Rio June 27th *(5 oversized)
Plan a Project as One (1 poster)
Food not Bombs Benefit Feb 6th (1 poster)
Earth First! (5 cards)
Gallimaufry (8 cards)
David Mims, Robert Sinclair (4 cards)
Jane 23rd Improve (4 cards)
DJ Composers (16 cards)
NC-17 Winter Concert (1 card)
Marathon Reading April 25th (2 posters)
Women’s Show 3 (5 cards)
Summer Heat (6 cards)
Food No Bombs Benefit Jan 31st (1 poster)
Reading Series Feb 22nd (7 cards)
Improvised Experimental Noise-bop (6 cards)
Free Raga Navy (5 cards)
The Cherry Tree (6 cards, 4 posters)
Reading Series April 25th (5 cards)
Reading Series June 13th (3 cards)
Reclaim the Streets (8 cards)
Many Sides of the Circle (5 cards)
Dos Blocos (3 posters)
Beware of the Ides of March (8 cards)
Art from the Inside: Out (8 cards)
War in the Neighborhood (5 cards)
DIY Revenge (3 posters)
Valentine’s the Day After (4 posters)
Hooverville (3 posters)
Local Color (2 cards)
12)Not from 1998-1999
1999-2000
1)Dime Museum
posters, publicity, ect.
2)Free Mumia
3)No Rio in Other Publications
4)Classes
Youth Photography Classes
5)Stained Sheets Newsletter
6)Programs @ NoRio
Food Not Bombs
7)Event Posters
No Trespassing (1 poster)
8)Photos
9)Miro
Envelope of Political Cartoons *oversized
2000
1)New York Underground Music & Poetry Festival
2)Volunteer/donate
3)Event not Publicity
*Silk Screen for Street Fair poster
4)Event Posters
ABC No Rio Street Fair (25 cards)
William Upski (9 posters)
An Evening of Future Present Psychedelic Spacerock (3 cards)
Spin-17 (17 cards)
Frank’s Depression (8 cards)
Austin’s Performance Art Church (25 cards)
Blues in the Face (1 card)
Super-8 Film Screening (3 cards)
Dangerous Remains (6 cards)
Wide Open Cabaret May-March (25+cards)
Eat Truth Poetry (5 cards)
Student Exhibition (13 cards)
No Rio Benefit June 4th *(1 oversized)
5)Not in 2000
Notes:
-Oversized are in oversized envelope (9)1994-1996 Posters, (10) 1997-1998 Posters,
(11) Miro, & (12) 1994-2000 Event Posters
-Original art is marked with *
BOX 10
Summary of Folder Contents:
Legal/Litigation
1)Miscellaneous Correspondence Related to Building
1)Crime reported by Steven Englander (1991)
2)Correspondence from Charmine Jefferson (NYSCA) to Lou Acierno in reference
to building damages resulting from demolition work (1989)
3)Itemization of Damages & Losses (1983-1989) (2 copies)
4)Correspondence from New York State Department of State Office of Charities
Registration in reference to insurance coverage for ABC No Rio (1989)
5)Correspondence from Anne Johnson (Community Board No. 3) to Alan Moore in
reference to their resolution not to relocate families in 156 Rivington (1989)
6)Correspondence from Lou Acierno to Steve Tinnerman (HPD) in reference to his
intention to deliver new keys to HPD. (1989)
7)Paul Castrucci’s (Registered Architect) inspection results of 156 Rivington,
recommending hasty repairs. (1989)
8)Correspondence from William Block (City of NY Department of Finance) assessing
value of 156 Rivington Property, with attached tax information. (1988)
2)Building Evictions
1983-1987,1988-1990,1992
3)Landlord/Tenant
1995-1997
4)ABC No Rio vs. Minchetti (HPD)
5)Board Minutes, Notes, and Correspondences
1988 –1997
Non-Litigation
6)Query from Patricia Krushner
7)Query from Jay Ledner
8)Shadow Photo Show 1989-1990
Notes:
-Oversized are in oversized envelope (17)
BOX 11
Summary of Folder Contents:
Legal/Litigation
1)Article 78 Background
2)Article 78 Petition
3)Article 78 Amended Petition
4)Article 78 Answer
5)Miscellaneous Squatter/Legal Information
6)Asian Americans for Equality
Inner Folder
1)Events at Other Locations
1981, Reconstruction Project
2)Correspondence
1980-1981
3)Images*
Photos, Drawings, Joseph Nechvatal piece
4)Artists for Survival Event Not Publicity
Images, research
5)Artists for Survival Posters
“Get Wrecked, Get Political” (25)
“You want it? We got it.” (25)
6)Other Publications
1981, 1st issue of PAD
7)Misc
Phone numbers
8) Fiscal
1979-1984
Summary of Flat Boxes
Flat Box 1
1) Real Estate Show Poster 11x17
23 copies, bilingual, some have original paintings and drawings
2)Unsigned Art
3)East Village Eye
September-October 1980, March 1981
4)Poster of New York Times Magdoff Quote 1979
Flat Box 2
1)Unsigned Art
including Bristol pad of works
2)Work by Carmen Cande
Flat Box 3
1)Internationalist Art Posters (14 copies)
2)Post Industrial Steel town Series Poster
Flat Box 4/Selections Pulled in 2002 for Mixed Greens Production
1)The Ultimately Civil Project Poster (3 copies)
2)Posters for Stephen Paul Miller’s Sunnyside
3)El Salvador Event Cardboard
4)Rent Strike Poster
5)Naked Eye Cinema Benefit Poster
6)Real Estate Show Posters and Flyers
7)Posters On FoamCore
7 Days of Creation
Absurdities Poster
Fountain Café
An After Hours Event
Open Meeting Tuesday 26
Plus: Not originally with these documents
1)Howl Festival Poster
2)A Sculpture Exhibition on Williamsburg Bridge Flag
3)Mechanical Format-Selections from No Rio Dinero Book
4)On FoamCore
The Passage: Dumas and Attack Gromja
5)Mac McGill
ABC No Rio Community Center for the Arts Print & 5 Drawings
6)Coma Benefit 2002
7)Drawing Resistance Poster 2001
8)SOA Show (laminated Signs)
Flat Box 5
1)Becky Howland Real Estate Show Flyer
1980, Hand Colored Xerox
2)Unsigned Art
3)Beer/Soda Sign
4)Group Behavior Poster
5)Allan Moore Text and Production
6)“Land Lords Don’t Supply…” flyer
7)1981 Inauguration Issue of The Nation
8)Avant Squares @ St. Marks Church
9)Mao Fundraiser
10)Artists for Survival Posters
11)Animals Living in Cities Poster
12)Misc Organizational Notes/Phone Numbers
13)Con Ed Bill
14) Other Stages May 1980
15)Joseph Nechvatal Work
16)Puerto Rican Solidarity 1979
17)Real Estate Show Poster 11x17
18)2 Seton Smith Works
19)Cats for Hire Poster
20)Layout for Real Estate Show Flyer 11x17
Flat Box 6
1)Unsigned Photos
2)Unsigned Drawings/Paintings
3)Unsigned photograph mounted & framed mounted on sheet rock (Nechvatal?)
4)1981 Daily News clipping
5)The Rat That Didn’t Have a Chance program
6)Joseph Nechvatal sheet rock drawing 1974
7)Joseph Nechvatal Graphite on Paper 1981 “Portrait of Samuel Bechate”
8)John Spencer piece 1979
9)Drawing pad with unsigned work and notes
Summary of Oversized Envelopes
1)Publicity Box 1
2)Press & Posters Box 2
3)No Rio in Other Publications Box 3
4)Box 6
5)Event Poster Box 7
6)Allied Productions Xeroxes Box 7
7)Newsletter Production Box 7
8)Mathew Courtney’s Wide Open Cabaret Drawings Box 8
9)1994-1996 Posters Box 9
10)1997-1998 Posters Box 9
11)Miro Box 9
12)1994-2000 Event Posters Box 9
13)Redundant Materials
14)Slides & Resumes Box 7
15)Slides & Resumes Box 7
16) Slides & Resumes Box 7 & 8
17) Associated with Box 10