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SEX, PERFORMANCE, AND THE 80’s.

NY: Franklin Furnace, 1982. 4to. Wrps., 56pp. Illustrated. Ed. Martha Wilson. Special issue of The Flue (Vol. 2, #3), featuring two front covers, with ‘Sex, Performance, and the 80s’ on one side and ‘L.A. London Catalogue’ on the flip side.

Franklin Furnace was founded in Manhattan by Martha Wilson in 1976 as an “alternate” space for artists to “find an audience outside of the mercantile, aesthetic, and temperamental hassles of the gallery-museum circuit” (Thomas B. Hess). It also served as a primary archive for artists’ books.

Contents of this double issue of The Flue, a magazine published by Franklin Furnace as a record of events, include “The History of Sex at Franklin Furnace” by Wilson (“Oops I meant performance. Performance art is really like sex anyway: Women like to perform in the dark, men in the light”); an interview with Carolee Schneemann by Linda Montano (3pp.); “Live Sex Act. A Human Sexual Response to the Performances of Barbara Smith and Paul McCarthy” by Linda Burnham; “The Summer of the Boy”; Feminist Art Workers; “Rose English: Adventure or Revenge” and “Thriller by Sally Potter” (two reviews by Lisa Liebmann); “A Litany For Women Artists” by Lucy Lippard; Carlyle Reedy; an interview with Suzanne Lacy and Susan Hiller (3pp.); more.

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