Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station-NY

To coincide with its exhibition That was Then, This is Now, on the history of the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) at MoMA PS1 (New York, June 22 – September 22, 2008), Primary Information made available an LP recording of the Guerrilla Art Action Group’s (GAAG) live “Action-Interview at WBAI Radio Station” on January 5 1970. It had been released in 1983 by Edizioni Lotta Poetica and Studio Morra as part of their Radio Taxi Series. The “Action-Interview” was recorded in the midst of the AWC’s struggle with the MoMA Trustees’ refusal to co-sponsor the Coalition’s Q. And babies? A. And babies. (1969) poster and the AWC and GAAG’s protests at MoMA in front of Guernica. Unsurprisingly, therefore, Jon Henricks, Poppy Johnson and Jean Toche (GAAG members) critically addressed the relationship between art and business, art and the military, art and class, art and community, and art and race.