Grand Openings
Return of the Blogs
July 20August 1, 2011
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400
MoMA RESUMES PERFORMANCE PROGRAM WITH A NEW COMMISSION BY
GRAND OPENINGS
Starting July 20, the New Yorkbased artist collective Grand Openings
presents
13 days of performance in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium and
throughout the Museum. Inviting collaborators such as musicians,
performance-art scholars, sound artists, filmmakers, writers, and friends,
the
group is composing a multifaceted live program that relates to the history
of
performance art in general as well as MoMA's particular institutional
structure. Some sections are informed by encounters with the Museum's
archives, current exhibitions, architecture, and staff; others are indirect
meditations on the practice of performing itself. The title of the program,
Grand Openings Return of the Blogs, refers to an additional documentary
element of the work&lsqauo;a daily account of the actions in the form of
handwritten
texts, fabricated objects, and audio podcasts&lsqauo;which will be presented in the
gallery space and on MoMA.org <http://MoMA.org> .
Grand Openings consists of five core members&lsqauo;Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether, Jay
Sanders, Emily Sundblad, and Stefan Tcherepnin&lsqauo;with different backgrounds in
art, music, curating, and criticism. The collective's mise-en-scènes
comprise
partly scripted and partly improvised actions, loose choreographies, musical
scores, and acts of self-reflection that all coexist in a chaotic structure.
Since its inception in 2005, the collective has appeared at Performa05 (New
York, 2005), Magical Artroom (Tokyo, 2006), Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
(Niigata Prefecture, Japan, 2006), MUMOK (Vienna, 2008), Bumbershoot
(Seattle,
2008), Art Basel Statements (Basel, 2009), SculptureCenter (New York, 2009),
and Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm, 2010).
By inviting an artist collective rather than an individual artist to restart
MoMA's performance program, the Museum directs its focus to the changing
relationship between institutions and performance art. A practice that was
once conceived as a critique of the static, commodified art object created
by
a sole author is now embraced by major museums and a focus of their
programs.
How do institutions and their audiences engage with this formerly
emancipatory
movement that once existed to seek new methods and channels for art? How do
younger generations of artists respond to this legacy? And in what ways do
artists negotiate the inherent tension between the original live performance
and its representation in different media? Grand Openings' practice relates
to
these questions in an idiosyncratic way and opens them up for new
discussion.
More information on MoMA's performance program and a detailed schedule are
available at MoMA.org/performance <http://MoMA.org/performance> .
The Performance Program is organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator,
and
Jenny Schlenzka, Assistant Curator for Performance, Department of Media and
Performance Art.
The Performance Exhibition Series is made possible by MoMA's Wallis
Annenberg
Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.
For information, please visit MoMA.org <http://MoMA.org> .
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400
MoMA.org <http://MoMA.org>
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