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Steven Englander
Photo of Steven Englander preparing the ABC No Rio zine library in advance of Hurricane Sandy in NYC, 2012
Director of ABC No Rio 19xx-2024
Born (1961-06-11) June 11, 1961 (age 64)
Chicago, Illinois
DiedDecember 12, 2024(2024-12-12) (aged 63)
New York, NY
Known forDirector of ABC No Rio

Steven Englander (June 11, 1961 - December 12, 2024) was the director and art curator of ABC No Rio from 1998 until 2024.

Early life and education

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Steven Englander, who was born in Chicago and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, moved to New York City in 1979 to study film at New York University.[1][2] He graduated in 1984[3]. While in college and afterward, Englander was involved in various anarchist and other political groups, most notable ABC No Rio.

ABC No Rio

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Englander first got involved with ABC No Rio in the late 1980s.[4][4] [5][6] In 1990, he moved into the building and lived there on and off until 1997. As co-director, he curated exhibits and was on-call for building issues.[1] In 1994 he began the three-year fight against eviction.[7] In 1997 Englander and other squatters moved out of the building so that the entire space could be used as a community arts facility.[8] This decision set the stage for negotiations in 2006 in which Englander facilitated ABC No Rio’s purchase of their 156 Rivington building from the city government for $1.[9]

As a curator, Englander also developed skills as an art installer. He curated or collaborated on many shows including:

  • Plain Brown Wrapper (1999) - a protest of Giuliani’s targeting of the adult entertainment industry in his suburbanization of NY[10]
  • Fear, Paranoia and Malevolence (2002)[11]
  • Three Cities Against the Wall (2006)[12]
  • The Art in Zines (2007)[13]
  • Ides of March (2008)[14]
  • Against Competition/Towards Mutual Aid at Flux Factory (2017)[15]
  • Taking It to the Streets (2017) held at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space during the "exile" period after ABC No Rio was demolished before being rebuilt.[16]
  • Many "clothesline" fundraisers, where print works were hung on a line and were replaced as new items as art pieces were purchased[17][18][19]

In 2007, Englander established the organization's first archives, processing 25 years' worth of material.[20] Under Englander's direction, ABC No Rio raised millions of dollars to build a new facility.[21]

The initial batch of donations, largely from the collective members and their networks, totaled $300,000 by 2004.[9] An anonymous check for $1M arrived in the mail in 2009.[22] That same year "Scott M. Stringer, and City Councilman Alan J. Gerson allocated $1.65 million for a new building."[23] By 2024, the building had received $21,000,000 from the city.[24]

With the funding in place and demolition scheduled, Englander oversaw the move of many of the building's furniture and materials to storage and the zine library and archive's move to Clemente Soto Velez in 2016.[25]

Squatting

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Englander was a Lower East Side squatter and lived at another former squatted building, now an HDFC co-op, Umbrella House.[26] He and his neighbors built a rooftop garden on the building that became operational in 2015. The building's motto is "From Ruin to Renewal."[26] He wrote the preface for the book Cracking the Movement : Squatting Beyond the Media.[27]

Other Activism

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Englander was an anarchist who was involved with the Anarchist Switchboard and the Libertarian Book Club and League. Of the former, he stated in an oral history interview "I was actually one of the few people who was responsible for keeping it going."[1] Keeping organizations going was a trademark of Englander's activism.

Englander was a participant in the Autonomedia editorial collective weekly meetings/'salon. Fly (artist) credits him with connecting her to the collective, which published her first book Chronic Riot Spasm.[28]

Death

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On December 12, 2024, five and half years after receiving a lung transplant, Englander died of complications arising from the rare lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. His last days were spent in the hospital with his partner, Victoria Law, their daughter, and other squatters and ABC No Rio regulars including Fly and Seth Tobocman.[29]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Steven Englander, Leader of an Outsider Art Outpost, Dies at 63". 2024-12-23. Archived from the original on 2024-12-26. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b "Steven Mark Englander 1961-2024". www.abcnorio.org. Retrieved 2024-12-21. Cite error: The named reference "abcnorio" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Oral history interview with Steven Englander, 2007 Sept. 7-Oct. 10 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Guskin, Jane; Englander, Steven (19970801). "ABC NO RIO BEATS EVICTION BUT NEEDS $$$ NOW!". Maximum Rocknroll. p. 1. Retrieved 20241221. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ a b Moynihan, Colin (July 4, 2006). "For $1, a Collective Mixing Art and Radical Politics Turns Itself Into Its Own Landlord". The New York Times. pp. B3.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Emily Roz". Emily Roz. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  11. ^ "ART REVIEW; Where Witty Meets Gritty (Published 2002)". 2002-11-15. Archived from the original on 2023-04-30. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  12. ^ Hirschfield, Robert (Jan/Feb 2006). ""Three Cities Against the Wall" Exhibit Opens in New York, Ramallah and Tel Aviv". The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. pp. 50, 53. Retrieved 20241221. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Wanted: pen, plain old paper, imagination". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  14. ^ "Wanted: pen, plain old paper, imagination". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  15. ^ "Against Competition/Towards Mutual Aid 2017". www.artcodex.org. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  16. ^ "When Posters Were the Samizdat of the Lower East Side (Published 2017)". 2017-05-18. Archived from the original on 2023-07-21. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  17. ^ "ABC No Rio - Clothesline Benefit". www.abcnorio.org. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  18. ^ "ABC No RIo Clothesline Benefit". justseeds.org. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  19. ^ "Clothesline Benefit Art Sale at ABC No Rio". doNYC. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  20. ^ "Guide to the Fashion Moda Archive 1978-1993 MSS 91". abcnorio.org. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  21. ^ Marich, Melanie (2024-07-16). "ABC No Rio, a Home for Anarchist Artists, Rises Again on the Lower East Side". THE CITY - NYC News. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  22. ^ Baron, Zach (2009-12-18). "ABC No Rio Got An Anonymous Check for One Million Dollars Two Days Before Thanksgiving". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  23. ^ "Punk Institution Receives City Money for New Building (Published 2009)". 2009-06-29. Archived from the original on 2024-06-25. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  24. ^ "An Artists' Squat Fought New York City for Decades. Did It Just Win?". 2024-10-08. Archived from the original on 2024-11-24. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  25. ^ Moynihan, Colin (May 16, 2016). "ABC No Rio Gears Up for a Razing and a Brand-New Home". The New York Times. pp. C3.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. ^ a b Disser, Nicole (2015-07-20). "From Squat to Rooftop Squash: A New Garden Blooms at Umbrella House". Bedford + Bowery. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  27. ^ "Item Details - Research Catalog - NYPL". Item Details - Research Catalog - NYPL. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  28. ^ "CHRONIC RIOT SPASM – Autonomedia". autonomedia.org. Archived from the original on 2024-04-21. Retrieved 2025-01-19.
  29. ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
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