GALLERY
Portraits
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photo credit: Aleksandar Kostic
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Joan La Barbara
Joan La Barbara in Greenwich Village, NYC, October 2004 photo: Jeffrey Herman
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Joan La Barbara in Greenwich Village, NYC, October 2004 photo: Jeffrey Herman
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Joan La Barbara with Plato, January 2009 photo: © 2009 Mark Mahaney
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photo: © 2009 Cahill Connolly
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Joan La Barbara with Liz, at home, NYC, January 2009 photo: © 2009 Mark Mahaney
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Joan La Barbara with Plato, January 2009 photo: © 2009 Mark Mahaney
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Joan La Barbara in her NYC studio, January 2009 (for The Wire ) photo: © 2009 Mark Mahaney
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A selection of Joan La Barbara’s Scores photo: © 2009 Mark Mahaney
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Joan La Barbara in her NYC studio, January 2009 (for The Wire) photo: © 2009 Mark Mahaney
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Joan La Barbara and Merce Cunningham at rehearsal of Cage’s “Lecture on the Weather”, Chelsea Art Museum, November 2008 photo: © 2008 Jan Williams
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photo: Julie Graber, 2002
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photo: Chris Corrie, March 2002
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photo: Chris Corrie, March 2002
Performance
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Curtain call from “Double Rainbow”, composed by Alvin Lucier. Premiere, Zurich 10/14/2016 photo: Toni Higgins
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Performing “Double Rainbow”, composed by Alvin Lucier Premiere, Zurich 10/14/2016 photo: Toni Higgins
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Joan La Barbara performing her work at INSTAL 09 Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, March 21, 2009 photo: © 2009 Bryony McIntyre
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Joan La Barbara performing “ROTHKO” at Roulette/Location One November 3, 2007 video: Kurt Ralske
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Joan La Barbara performing “ROTHKO” at Roulette/Location One November 3, 2007 video: Kurt Ralske
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Joan La Barbara performing “ROTHKO” at Roulette/Location One November 3, 2007 video: Kurt Ralske
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Joan La Barbara performing “ROTHKO” at Roulette/Location One November 3, 2007 video: Kurt Ralske
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Joan La Barbara performing “ROTHKO” at Roulette/Location One November 3, 2007 video: Kurt Ralske
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Joan La Barbara premieres her new work “Striations” for voice and 16 intonarumori at The Town Hall, November 12, 2009, commissioned and presented by Performa 09 festival, with Magik*Magik Orchestra, conducted by Luciano Chessa. photo: Paula Court
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Joan La Barbara and Didier Flamand in Parallel Dreams, film by Aleksandar Kostic. photo: Aleksandar Kostic
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Joan La Barbara (“Widow of Norman Mailer”) and John Buffalo Mailer (“Norman II”) in Matthew Barney’s epic film work River of Fundament. photo: Peter Streitmann
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Joan La Barbara performs her work “October Music: Star Showers and Extraterrestrials” as part of “A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music”, presented by Performa 09 Festival, at Gramercy Theatre in NYC, November 21, 2009. photo: Paula Court
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REWIRE photo ©Jan Rijk
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Performing “Double Rainbow”, composed by Alvin Lucier. Premiere, Zurich 10/14/2016 photo: Toni Higgins
Historical
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Rehearsing “Still and Moving Lines in Families of Hyperbolas” Cunningham Studios, NYC, 1974. Photo : Mary Lucier
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Performance in LA, 1984 photo: Debbie Richardson
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Warren Smith, Joan La Barbara, Bruce Ditmas performing La Barbara’s “Thunder” at The Kitchen, 1976. photo : Mary Lucier
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Joan La Barbara & Dana Reitz performing “A Collaboration in Vocal Sound and Movement”, Environ NYC 1975. photo: Mary Lucier
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Joan La Barbara & Dana Reitz performing “A Collaboration in Vocal Sound and Movement”, Environ NYC 1975. photo: Mary Lucier
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Joan La Barbara & Dana Reitz performing “A Collaboration in Vocal Sound and Movement”, Environ NYC 1975. photo: Mary Lucier
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Joan La Barbara rehearsing Earle Brown’s “Windsor Jambs” with 20th Century Players at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. circa 1981
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Joan La Barbara interview for Avalanche magazine Soho Rooftop, 1973. photo: Gwenn Thomas
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Joan La Barbara interview for Avalanche magazine Soho Rooftop, 1973. photo: Gwenn Thomas
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Joan La Barbara interview with Nina Melis, NYC 1975. photo: Nina Melis
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Joan La Barbara & Jon Gibson at David Tudor’s “Rainforest”. l’Espace Cardin, Paris (1974) photo: Horace
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Joan La Barbara performing Alvin Lucier’s “Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas” at the Kitchen, 1975. photo: Mary Lucier
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Joan La Barbara in performance of her work “12 for 5 in 8” (1979) at CalArts Contemporary Music Festival, with members of the Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble (EVTE) from San Diego. photo : Dennis Gilbert
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Joan La Barbara in performance at LA Theatre Center (3/3/86) of her work “Winds of the Canyon” with sets by visual artist Lita Albuquerque (standing in shadow at left). photo: Debbie Richardson
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John Adams & Joan La Barbara at Betty Freeman’s Music Room, LA. November 7, 1982. photo: Betty Freeman
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Joan La Barbara w/ Conlon Nancarrow at Betty Freeman’s Musical Soiree, LA, 1985. photo: Betty Freeman
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Portrait by Betty Freeman 1985
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Joan & Nicholas Slonimsky at Betty Freeman’s Musical Soiree, 1983 photo: Betty Freeman
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Joan La Barbara and John Cage playing chess before a rehearsal at his loft photo: © 1976 Michael McKenzie
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Joan La Barbara and John Cage at rehearsal in San Francisco May 7, 1992 photo: © 1992 Betty Freeman
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“From 1976. JLB working in Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach
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photo: Roberto Massoti, 1976
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photo: Roberto Massoti, 1976
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photo: Roberto Massoti, 1976
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photo: Roberto Massoti, 1976
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photo: Roberto Massoti, 1976
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Joan La Barbara (kneeling by tape deck and light panning device) during performance of “CYCLONE Con(s)t(r)ained” at P.S. 1, Long Island City, 1977.
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Town Hall premiere of Steve Reich’s “Drumming” 1971, NYC. Left to right, Jay Clayton (L), Joan La Barbara(C), Judith Sherman (R)
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From performance at Cologne Kunst Markt (or Art Fair), 1974 with members of Philip Glass Ensemble: closest to camera – Joan La Barbara, to her right is Dickie (or Richard) Landry, next to him (mostly hidden) is Richard Peck and farthest from camera is Jon Gibson
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David Tudor’s Rainforest performance April 19, 1975 at The Kitchen (59 Wooster Street). Tom Johnson is in foreground with back to camera, I am facing camera, both listening to hoop; in background at right is Laurie Speigel. photo: Kathy Landman
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Gordon Mumma (playing horn) and me barefoot (seems the way I was doing things those days), rehearsing David Behrman’s “Rebus” in Cunninghman studio at Westbeth, summer 1974 prior to our performances in Paris for Festival d’Automne. Photo : Mary Lucier
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JLB w/David Tudor, Paris 1974 There is a series of 3 photos [Photo: Horace] I sang in Tudor’s “Rain Forest” at l’Espace Cardin, Autumn, 1974. In this one, the performance, David is at the table with electronics and I am sitting on a low cushion singing into a microphone. David is sending my voice to various objects in the Rain Forest.
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Photo taken in live performance at a space called Environ, December 1975 at premiere of my collaboration with Dana Reitz, “An Exploration in Vocal Sound and Movement”. Photo : Mary Lucier
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Staten Island photo shows Dana Reitz (L), Phill Niblock (C), Joan La Barbara (R) in preparation to film work-in-progress rehearsal of “An Exploration in Vocal Sound and Movement” at Staten Island Community College, summer, 1975
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David Tudor is giving me instructions and explanations of where the sounds will be sent in performance of “Rain Forest” (l’Espace Cardin, Paris, Autumn, 1974)