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We'll end our Soho tour with a last word from performance artist Jack Smith – CLICK HERE to view on an external page.

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In this itinerary, we explore New York after its postwar ascendency as a worldwide art capital; and equally, as a vibrant ecosystem of experimental, critical, and alternative practices. How do these multiple art-worlds intersect and conflict?

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Soho & Adrian Piper's The Mythic Being

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MoMA, West 53rd Street, New York, NY, USA

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Our first stop brings us to MoMA and the Jewish Museum, where we examine the emergence of mainstream art institutions through the lens of curator Kynaston McShine and his two seminal exhibitions, 'Primary Structures' and 'Information'. The video above starts our tour.

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MoMA, West 53rd Street, New York, NY, USA

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Stopping at MoMA, listen to an introduction to Kynaston McShine's early career.

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The Jewish Museum, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

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B) 'Primary Structures' at the Jewish Museum

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B) 'Primary Structures' at the Jewish Museum

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Take a tour of McShine's first seminal exhibition of New York's minimalists and London's New Generation sculptors at the Jewish Museum in 1966.

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MoMA, West 53rd Street, New York, NY, USA

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Take a tour of McShine's second landmark exhibition of conceptual art at MoMA in 1970.

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Part II: Claiming Space on Rented Island: Performance in the '70s

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Part II: Claiming Space on Rented Island: Performance in the '70s

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Travelling to Soho, we consider the neighborhood as a site of emerging performance practices during the 1970s. We will first hear about life in live-work lofts that artists set up in the Downtown area in this video with curator Lydia Yee.

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Laurie Anderson Trisha Brown and Gordon Matta-Clark Pioneers Of The Downtown Scene New York 1970

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1970s performance practices weren't restricted to Soho's loft spaces. Here we move outside to follow Adrian Piper on her performance of her influential piece The Mythic Being (1973).

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Further explorations of Adrian Piper's The Mythic Being.

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We'll end our Soho tour with a last word from performance artist Jack Smith – CLICK HERE to view on an external page.

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Part III: Conduits of the City - the NYC Subway

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Part III: Conduits of the City - the NYC Subway

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On this stop we hop on the NYC subway and examine it as a conduit and site of practice for artists across boroughs, as well as a public space and communication platform open to contested uses. Start with a clip from Charlie Ahearn's 1983 classic, 'Wild Style'.

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Reflecting on our tour of the subway through 'Wild Style'.

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Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

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Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

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Explore more at '“Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation' at the MFA Boston.

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What possibilities for critical, collective, and democratic practices persist in an increasingly commercialised, gentrifying city?
We visit artist collective Group Material at their storefront exhibition space in the Lower East Side.

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We finish our itinerary with a trip to a South Bronx public school, where Group Material member Tim Rollins established a collaborative art-pedagogical practice with students under the name of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).