Carol Goodden

Carol Goodden
Born	London
Known for	Photography, Dance
Notable work	Trisha Brown Dance Company (founding member), FOOD

Carol Goodden (also known as Caroline Goodden Ames) is a New York based artist and dancer known for her photography and participation in Trisha Brown's dance company. She was also the co-founder of the artist-run restaurant, FOOD where she was the main investor.

Goodden was born in London, UK during World War II and was a world traveler. In the 1970s, she was in New York where she worked as a documentary photographer and dancer. In 2007, she had moved to New Mexico.

Much of Goodden's photography documented the ephemeral art work of the 1970s New York art scene. She became an artistic collaborator with her boyfriend and fellow artist, sculptor Gorden Matta-Clark. Goodden documented his art, such as tagging hair clumps and tying them to a wire cage which she later photographed for Hair (1972). She also documented Matta-Clark's Jacks in 1971. Because of the ephemeral nature of Matta-Clark's art, documentation was important for understanding what the art looked like.

Goodden was a founding member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970. Goodden was a participant in many of Trisha Brown's dance performances. On April 1970, she was part of the original cast of Brown's Leaning Duets which took place near Wooster Street in New York City. In 1973, she danced in Raft Piece, Spanish Dance and Scallops, the last of which was performed at the Festival d'Automne in the Musee Gallera in Paris on October 6. In 1974, she performed Figure 8 with Brown's troupe in Rome at the Contemporanea Festival on January 2, and on June 2, she danced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Drift. In 1977, she conducted a series of poetry readings at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Like her documentation of Matta-Clark, Goodden also documented dance performances such as Brown's 1971 Walking on the Wall and other routines such as Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.

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