MK Guth “Shout, Recount, Get Drunk”
Cristin Tierney Gallery
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Cristin Tierney Gallery presents Shout, Recount, Get Drunk, a special project consisting of both public and private performances organized by MK Guth. Performances will run daily from June 22nd through July 1st during regular gallery hours. This is Guth’s first project with Cristin Tierney Gallery.
Instructions for Drinking with a Friend is a public performance
occurring four times each day at the gallery. Select visitors drink
whiskey together in the space, following instructions provided by
the artist. The gallery installation also features vignettes of found
and handcrafted objects, each of which corresponds to a
performance enacted in New York during the run of the project.
Included in every sculptural still life is an artist book with
instructions for the performance, as well as recipes, images,
drawings, and texts to guide each experience. In Instructions for
Drinking with a Friend, for example, visitors find a table and two
stools, two hand-blown glasses, a custom engraved bottle of
whiskey, and a handmade book that outlines the rules of their
performance. Similarly, the two private performances—Dinner for
Remembering and Dinner to Plan a Revolution—are represented
by curated assemblages of readymade and found objects that
pertain to the dinners’ respective themes: remembering
something past, and envisioning desired change.
Positioned around the rituals and sites of sharing food and drink,
Shout, Recount, Get Drunk illuminates how social interaction is
shaped through rites and treasured objects, calling special
attention to the overlooked narratives in our everyday
experiences. Throughout her career, Guth has continually
explored how we orient ourselves in the larger social and spatial
landscape. In an era when human relations are increasingly
mediated by the digital world, these questions have ever-greater
significance. Visitors and participants are also prompted to
question where, exactly, the artwork exists. Is it located in the
object, the performance, or the more liminal context of the gallery
space, which functions simultaneously as a site of presentation,
performance, dining hall, and tavern?
Instructions for Drinking with a Friend will take place four times
on each day, from Wednesday, June 22nd through Saturday, the
25th, and from Monday, June 27th through Friday, July 1st. The
daily time slots are as follows: 12:00 to 1:00 pm, 1:30 to 2:30 pm,
3:00 to 4:00 pm, and 4:30 to 5:30 pm. Interested parties may sign
up for a time slot by contacting Candace Moeller at
candace@cristintierney.com or +1.212.594.0550. Participants
will be sent instructions for the performance in advance.
An alumna of the New York University graduate school of fine
arts, MK Guth has exhibited her work internationally at numerous
museums and festivals including The Whitney Museum of
American Art, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The
Melbourne International Arts Festival, Nottdance Festival, The
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Art Gym at
Merylhurst University, Swiss Institute, WhiteBox Annex, White
Columns, Artists Space, Side Street Projects, The Frye Art
Museum, and The Henry Art Gallery at the University of
Washington. Guth is a founding member of the RED SHOE
DELIVERY SERVICE, an ongoing collaborative performance
project with artists Molly Dilworth and Cris Moss. Recently, the
artist completed a residency at The Schneider Museum of Art,
where she produced some of the materials for the present
exhibition. She is the recipient of the Betty Bowen Special
Recognition Award, administered by The Seattle Art Museum,
and an Award of Merit from The Bellevue Arts Museum. Guth is
currently Associate Professor at the Pacific Northwest College of
Art. She lives and works in Portland, OR.
Shout, Recount, Get Drunk is made possible through the generous support of The Ford Family Foundation, The Schneider Museum of Art, and Indio Spirits.
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Schedule
from June 21, 2016 to July 01, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-06-21 from 18:00 to 20:00