Jacob Burckhardt's formative artistic years coincided with the 1970s, when experimentation and concept reigned and visionary artists explored new methods for the stage. These ideas radiate from the small-scale photographs reflecting Burckhardt's own participation in early Robert Wilson productions of The $ Value of Man and Einstein on the Beach, Echo Ranch by Jim Neu, Michael Galasso and Elizabeth Pasquale, and rehearsals and performances by Burckhardt's wife, dancer/choreographer Yoshiko Chuma and her School of Hard Knocks. The images read as living artifacts, witness to collaborative encounters on downtown streets and historic venues such as St. Mark's Church. Performers and onlookers read as a who's who of the seventies avant-garde: Charles Ludlam, Lucinda Childs, Allen Ginsberg, Alvin Curran, Yoko Ono and others. Burckhardt captures off-the-cuff sequences that bring these experimental milieus, artistic circles and the moments of their discoveries intimately and vividly to life.

For more information, please contact Tia Shin at info@silonyc.com.