CHRIS FREMANTLE

Credited to Newton Harrison at the time, but the 1972 work of Helen and Newton Harrison Survival Piece #V: Portable Orchard is now part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection and is being re-performed. Tatiana Sizonenko (curator of ‘Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work‘ as part of PST in San Diego) uses ‘re-performed rather than re-constructed.

Downtown in Greenwich Village there is Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape, a monument to the erased pre-colonial ecosystem of the island of Mannahatta, conceived in 1965 and realised in 1978. Now adjacent is an area of city gardens (or allotments), and a very large Picasso.