Art Calendar
February
Fisher Landau CENTER FOR ART
38-27 30TH STRET
718-937-0727
“Lorna Simpson: Hypothetical?”
On view through Aug. 7
Fisher Landau Center for Art is excited to announce the presentation of Hypothetical?
Lorna Simpson’s sound installation including text, a photograph and mouthpieces
from wind instruments. First shown in 1993 at the Whitney Biennial, the artwork
was purchased directly from the exhibition and has not been on view since her
retrospective traveled throughout the United States from2006-07, organized by the
American Federation of Arts. Hypothetical emerged as a pivotal moment in Simpson’s
artwork, creating a physical space where the viewers become active participants.
This signaled a major shift from her two-dimensional photo pieces incorporating
text, to her first forays into installation based environments. The aural component of
Hypothetical is inspired by the constraints of spoken language: silent mouthpieces
from wind instruments are installed directly into the wall as sculptural forms,
accompanied by hidden speakers projecting the muted sound of labored breathing as
if struggling to reach a cohesive melody.
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Musuem
of the moving image
36-01 35th Avenue
718-777-6888
“HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US”
On view through
Jan. 20, 2021
HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US is a participatory
performance by LaBeouf, Rönkkö &
Turner that invites the public to deliver
the words “He will not divide us” into a
camera mounted on a wall outside the
Museum of the Moving Image, repeating
the phrase as many times, and for as
long as they wish. The performance
commences at 9:00 a.m. on January 20,
2017, the day of the inauguration of the
45th President of the United States.
Sculpturecenter
9-01 33rd Road
718-204-7088
“In Practice: Material Deviance”
On view through March 27
Informed by encounters with the quotidian, unassuming
stuff of life and its circulation, the artists included in
Material Deviance connect material and bodily processes
with social and infrastructural ones. The artists look to
irregularities, glitches, gaps, residues, and altered states
- either found or enacted - as a means of accessing the
latent histories of materials in order to expose underlying
systems of power, regulation, value, and control. While
these systems inevitably shape the movement of bodies
through the world (both at the level of the individual and
the social), the works on view reveal the cracks where
counter-movements and improvisational modes of being
and perceiving are possible.
