Coleen Fitzgibbon (born 1950) is an American

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artist associated with Collaborative Projects, Inc. (a.k.a.

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). She worked under the

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Colen Fitzgibbon between the years 1973–1980.

Career history

Fitzgibbon was a student of 1960s

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ist cinema at the

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and the Whitney Independent Study Program where she studied with Owen Land (aka “ George Landow”),

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, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann and

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. Fitzgibbon worked on film and sound projects for

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, Gordon Matta-Clark and Les Levine. Fitzgibbon formed the collaborative ''X&Y'' project with Robin Winters in 1976 and helped form the conceptual art project called ''The Offices of Peter Fend, Fitzgibbon,

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, Peter Nadin,

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and Robin Winters'' in 1979 (the same year she performed at ''Public Arts International/Free Speech''). She co-founded the New York-based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (

) in 1977, along with forty plus artists. She was president of

during the formation of ''

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''. Fitzgibbon and Alan W. Moore created an 11:41-minute film in 1978 (finished in 2009) of a

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concert to benefit Colab called ''X Magazine Benefit'', documenting performances of

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, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC in the late 1970s. Shot in black and white Super 8 and edited on video, the film captures the gritty look and sound of the music scene during that era. In 2013 it was exhibited in 2009 at the

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art gallery in New York City. Fitzgibbon has also screened her work at international film festivals, museums and galleries, including: the New Museum,

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Film Center in Chicago, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels,

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London,

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in New York City,

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in Amsterdam, Exit Art, and Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles. Fitzgibbon appears in an on-camera interview in the 2017 documentary film '' Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat'' by Sara Driver that contains extensive coverage of

, '' The Real Estate Show'', ''

'' and

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Filmography

*Land of Nod (1992/2013) *SYBAR (1975/2012) *Der Spiegel (1976/2011) *Document (Public Records) (1976/2011) *Lower East Side (LES) (1976/2011) *Dictionary (1975/2011) *Daily News (1974/2011) *I.S. Migration (1974/2010) *Money (C. Perlman and Coleen Fitzgibbon) (1996) *Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min. (1975) *TIME (Cover to Cover) (1975) *FM/TRCS (1974) *Internal System (1974) *Beach (2012) *Rose Selavee (2012) *Make A Movie (1974/2011) *Trip to Carolee (1973/2011) *Portraits 71 -72 (1972/2011) *Found Film Flashes (1973) *Gym (1973)

Documentaries

*East Village Artists (1990/2012, video) *Peter Fend at Essex Street Gallery (1990-2012) *X-Magazine Benefit (1978/2009) *Far East Memories: Interview With Hiroshi Teshigahara (1990) (Complete) *L.M. (1990) *Virgin Beauty On Ludlow (1989)

Footnotes

References

* Carlo McCormick, ''The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984'', Princeton University Press, 2006. * Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ''

Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery'' New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985. * Masters, Marc. ''No Wave''. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007. * Pearlman, Alison, ''Unpackaging Art of the 1980s''. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2003. * Taylor, Marvin J. (ed.). ''The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984'', foreword by Lynn Gumpert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. *

External links

Fitzgibbon official website
*Interview with P. Adams Sitne

*Coleen Fitzgibbon on Vime

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