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Suzanne Fiol (United States, May 9, 1960 – October 5, 2009),"an impresario of avant-garde culture in New York"〔 founded the performance space ISSUE Project Room in 2003 and oversaw its growth from the fringes of the New York new music scene into what The Village Voice,〔Baron, Zach. R.I.P. Suzanne Fiol, Founder and Director of Issue Project Room. The Village Voice: Oct. 6 2009 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/10/rip_suzanne_fio.php〕 The Brooklyn Borough President,〔Kuntzman, Gersh and Yakowicz, Will. Issue Project Room’s Suzanne Fiol is dead at 49. The Brooklyn Paper http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/40/32_40_gk_suzanne_fiol_is_dead.html〕 and Fiol herself〔 predicted will become the "Carnegie Hall for the avant-garde" when it opens its downtown Brooklyn location in 2011. Fiol's goal in life "was to create a dynamic environment for music, performance, readings, and the development of new work, and she succeeded; the organization has become a reference for experimental art in New York City….(S)he devoted her life to the promotion of experimental culture."〔WomenArts, WomenArts Mourns Passing of Suzanne Fiol, October 9, 2009 http://blog.womenarts.org/2009/10/womenarts-mourns-passing-of-suzanne.html〕 A fixture of the downtown experimental performing art scene for twenty years, she was an early supporter of composer Rhys Chatham,〔Fischer, Annie. Issue Project Room Moves Again, A nomadic experimental-music spot gets a lovely (and hopefully permanent) new home. "The Village Voice" May 06, 2008 http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-05-06/music/the-latest-issue/〕 experimental musicians like Alan Licht and Tony Conrad,〔 Sonic Youth, the reclusive Texas musician Jandek,〔 drummer Ikue Mori,〔 and "new-music regulars like Marc Ribot, Anthony Coleman and Elliott Sharp",〔 〔Murrin, Tom. Backstage with Issue Project's Suzanne Fiol. "Paper Magazine" http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=2916〕 numbers of teenage and obscure bands, (for instance "Nautical Almanac, the hyper-obscure Baltimore noise duo "〔 as well as established groups like Moby, which provided a fundraiser appearance for ISSUE Project Room. In addition to her leadership role in the performing arts, Fiol was a respected photographer whose work was exhibited nationally and internationally and appears in the permanent collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, The Queens Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.〔 Fiol died of lung and brain cancer in October, 2009.〔Sisario, Ben. Suzanne Fiol, Avant-Garde Impresario, Dies at 49. The New York Times, October 8, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/music/08fiol.html?scp=1&sq=suzanne%20fiol&st=cse〕 ==Life== A native of New York City, Fiol attended the experimental Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she told classmates in 1978 that she wanted "to devote my life to experimental culture."〔 She then attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a BFA.〔 She earned her MFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1983. She worked as a gallerist in SoHo〔Hallett, Nick. Suzanne Fiol (1960–2009) "Rhizome" October 13th, 2009 http://rhizome.org/editorial/2999〕 including Donald Wren, Marcuse Pfeifer and Brent Sikkema galleries.〔 where she was a successful art dealer. Married to Joaquin Fiol, whom she met at the Mudd Club, in 1991 she chose for several years to be a stay-at-home mother〔bombblog accessed 25 November 2009 http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=4958〕 and pursued a career as a multi-media painter-photographer "cultivating a style that superimposed layers of paint over her original photos in an attempt to capture the 'ecstatic moment' of her subject material."〔 She returned to the avant-garde community when she and her husband divorced, and was a fixture of the avant-jazz club Tonic on the Lower East Side.〔 In 2001 she created the cover of Marc Ribot’s 2001 album,'Saints.'〔CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC. New York mourns Suzanne Fiol October 10, 2009 http://charmicarmicat.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-york-mourns-suzanne-fiol.html〕 and in the same year she co-launched Issue Management, an agency to represent photographers〔 in a former garage on 6th Street between Avenues B and C in the East Village.〔 The space allowed the earliest incarnation of ISSUE Project Room, which attracted artists needing space for presentation of experimental music and multi-disciplinary performances.〔 Fiol's new venue quickly established a place in the small circuit of downtown clubs and makeshift theaters that specialize in the fringes of contemporary music〔 As the reviewer for 'The New Yorker' magazine put it, "Cagean conceptualists rubbed shoulders with free-jazz virtuosos, indie-rock sound terrorists, and diehard modernists."〔Ross, Alex. Crossing Over. "The New Yorker" November 2, 2009 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2009/11/02/091102gonb_GOAT_notebook_ross〕 ISSUE Project Room became the focus of the rest of her professional life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suzanne Fiol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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