Orchard Dossier

摘要

The alternative space cum gallery called Orchard opened its storefront at 47 Orchard Street on New York's Lower East Side on May 11, 2005, with a plan to terminate the experiment three years later. During that three-year period, the exhibitions, events, openings, screenings, discussions, and performances staged at the venue gradually became the locus and embodiment of a certain strain of critical artistic discourse, one that drew upon the differing, and sometimes mutually exclusive, perspectives of the members of the space's organizing collective: Rhea Anastas, Moyra Davey, Andrea Fraser, Nicolas Guagnini, Gareth James, Christian Philipp Miiller, Jeff Preiss, R.H.