{"id":33,"date":"2010-08-30T18:13:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2022-02-23T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:37:48","slug":"group-material","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"Group Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/small-Rs-ARCcleaned28r-copyadj-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/small-Rs-ARCcleaned28r-copyadj-copy.jpg\" alt=\"small Rs ARCcleaned28r copyadj copy\" width=\"850\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/small-Rs-ARCcleaned28r-copyadj-copy.jpg 850w, http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/small-Rs-ARCcleaned28r-copyadj-copy-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/small-Rs-ARCcleaned28r-copyadj-copy-768x515.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/small-Rs-ARCcleaned28r-copyadj-copy-150x101.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/small-Rs-ARCcleaned28r-copyadj-copy-373x250.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doug Ashford became a member of Group Material in 1982 and its work was his principle art practice until the collective disbanded in 1996. Over its sixteen-year life Group Material produced over forty-five exhibitions and public projects that sought to transform the production, presentation and recounting of contemporary culture by inventing new forms for the museum and the street. This website presents only a very partial view.\u00a0 This history is fully discussed in the book <em>Show and Tell: a Chronicle of Group Material<\/em>, edited by Julie Ault with essays by Ashford, Ault, Sabrina Locks and Tim Rollins. (see publications page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?cat=20\">here<\/a> for downloads)<\/p>\n<p>Chronology of Group Material, Exhibitions and Public Projects_<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GM-all-shows-timeline.pdf\">(link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2006-08 Ashford and Ault built an archive of Group Material that\u00c2 is now housed at the Fales Library Downtown Collection at NYU and is available for visiting by appointment<a href=\"tp:\/\/dlib.nyu.edu\/findingaids\/html\/fales\/groupmaterial\/\">_(link)<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dlib.nyu.edu\/findingaids\/html\/fales\/groupmaterial\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the most complete documentation of Group Material&#8217;s practice, please see the book, <em>Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material<\/em>, edited by Julie Ault <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk\/books\/show-and-tell-a-chronicle-of-group-material\/\">_ (link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Ashford became a member of Group Material in 1982 and its work was his principle art practice until the collective disbanded in 1996. Over its sixteen-year life Group Material produced over forty-five exhibitions and public projects that sought to transform the production, presentation and recounting of contemporary culture by inventing new forms for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}