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Present Tense Bonnie Marranca 1976. It was a very good year. The world that PAJ entered upon its founding forty years ago was made by artists and audiences and critics and editors, artistic directors and founders of organizations, spaces, publications, and all the cafés and bookstores and galleries. Everyone who lived and worked downtown understood that the performance culture was something they helped to make. They cared about it, fought over it, wrote about it. Downtown was held together and felt important because it was valued by all those who worked in this artistic world. Valuing it meant that there were standards of achievement and excellence, acknowledging that it was also O.K to fall short because the work was part of the âexperimentalâ arts. PAJ was conceived in one of the then well-known Village spots, Café Borgia, at the crossroads of Bleecker and MacDougal streets, across from the legendary Café Figaro, both no longer there. Shortly after starting out it was edited from a $300-a-month railroad apartment on St. Marks Place, a celebrated street that is itself the subject of a new book. Two of the founders of Mabou Mines, Ruth Maleczech and Lee Breuer, lived in the
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2016
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