“AUNTSforcamera” Exhibition
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
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AUNTS is a community-building apparatus for organizing simultaneous performance and art activities in a shared space. It is based in Brooklyn and presently organized by Laurie Berg and Liliana Dirks-Goodman. This fall the New Museum, by invitation from the Stedelijk Museum and Trouw (a nightclub and arts space in Amsterdam), is organizing a special international dance-for-camera edition of AUNTS as part of the Trouw Invites… exhibition series. Participating AUNTS artists include Cara Francis, IMMA/MESS, Vanessa Justice, Anya Liftig, Karl Scholz, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Gillian Walsh, Collective Settlement (Felicia Ballos, Jean Brennan, and Charnan Lewis), and collaborators Salome Asega, Chrybaby Cozie, and Ali Rosa-Salas.
“AUNTSforcamera” unfolds publicly through an open-studio production week, shared simultaneously by all participating artists and resulting in new dance-for-camera works that will be exhibited as an immersive moving image installation at Trouw and, later, the New Museum (including new material produced with artists and audiences at Trouw). Select works under commission include an interactive game utilizing hacked Kinekt software to reward players for learning the original Harlem Shake dance; a new social media platform that will accumulate eight-second viewer-generated dance videos into a single-channel loop; a multi-channel sculptural installation reconstituting the dancing bodies of its creators into a single “exquisite corpse” moving-image form; and an interactive video installation combining hand-dance and shadow puppetry with aerial footage from the operation of an AR Drone flown inside the New Museum Theater.
September 10–14, 2014: “AUNTSforcamera” production week: open studios
November 6, 2014: “AUNTSforcamera” opening event: BYOC! (Bring Your Own Camera!)
November 6–30, 2014: “AUNTSforcamera” installation: Trouw
December 17, 2014–February 15, 2015: “AUNTSforcamera” installation: New Museum
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Schedule
from September 10, 2014 to February 06, 2015
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