ABC No Rio

ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism in New York. It is known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and we retain these values to the present. ABC No Rio seeks to facilitate cross-pollination between artists and activists. It is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society, culture, and community. (2022)

Publications

• Alan Moore, Marc Miller (eds.), ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery, New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985, vi+195 pp. "A catalogue of the gallery's first five years as well as an exploration of the broader artistic context from which it emerged. Featuring art and articles from the time, it provides a contemporaneous, grass-roots account of artists, groups, and ideas at the onset of the art boom of the 1980s."

• ABC No Rio, Founders Era Artifacts, New York: ABC No Rio, 1998, [24] pp, IA, IA. Zine.

• ABC No Rio, Artifacts: Decadent Performance, n.d. Zine.

• ABC No Rio, 1999. Booklet; with CD.

• Alan W. Moore, "Artists' Collectives: Focus on New York, 1975-2000", in Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, eds. Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp 204-219.

• Alan W. Moore, Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2011, vii+185 pp. Street-level history of artists’ groups and collective activity by artists in New York from 1969 to 1985. Publisher. Review: Battista (Art M).

• Alan W. Moore, Occupation Culture: Art and Squatting in the City from Below, Minor Compositions, 2015, 378 pp. Book website. Publisher.

• Max Schumann (ed.), A Book about Colab (and Related Activities), forew. & afterw. Walter Robinson, New York: Printed Matter, 2016, 256 pp. Publisher.

• Alan W. Moore, "ABC No Rio as an Anarchist Space", in Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street, ed. Tom Goyens, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017, pp 201-220.

• Nandini Bagchee, "The Collective Making of ABC No Rio (1980–2010)", in Bagchee, Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side, Fordham University Press, 2018, pp 153-198.

• Alan W. Moore, Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Artworld, JOAAP, 2022. Outline. Publisher. Book website.

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Links

• Website
• ABC No Rio History
• Guide to the ABC NO RIO Records Archive, 1974-2002
• https://98bowery.com/return-to-the-bowery/abcnorio-the-book
• http://web.archive.org/web/20110621063415/http://collaborativeprojectsarchive.wikispaces.com/ABC+No+Rio
• http://web.archive.org/web/19990424070122/http://www.panix.com/%7Eblackout/abcnorio.html
• Wikipedia