TORCHES: 30 Years of Downtown Performance in New York City Kick-Off Conversation

Barbara Busackino, Tim Maner, Kristin Marting, and Randy Rollison, the four founders of New York City’s HERE Arts Center, gather to share their founding story and insights about the field’s evolution to kick off Kristin Marting's new project TORCHES: 30 Years of Downtown Performance in New York City.

TORCHES is a much needed exploration of New York City’s unique and influential downtown performance world from the 1990s through today. The first part of this two-part project is oral histories with thirty-plus groundbreaking artists and arts leaders. The second part will be a book synthesizing the interviews into thematic chapters on topics like artistic process, risk and failure, activism, and more.

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