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Sat, Oct 18, 2008
3:00 PM

New Museum theater (directions)

Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Dave McKenzie, and Lisa Sigal in conversation with curator Eungie Joo

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Curator Eungie Joo leads a conversation between artists Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Dave McKenzie, and Lisa Sigal about their practices and work in the exhibition “Museum as Hub: Six Degrees.” The exhibition begins as a consideration of “neighborhood”—a question of what the role of a downtown contemporary art museum might be and how the New Museum relates to its new environs. Commissions and time-based projects for this exhibition occupy and engage the neighborhood by employing nearby buildings as canvas, local artists as collaborators, and New Museum territory as meeting place, recital hall, and laboratory.

Ginger Brooks Takahashi’s project an army of lovers cannot fail, an ongoing project since 2004, has been shown and worked on all over North America.  Three POWERSTITCHES—Brooks Takahashi’s quilting forums—will be hosted in the Museum as Hub space this fall, continuing the project.

Dave McKenzie has described working as an artist as a way to meet people. His three works in “Museum as Hub: Six Degrees”—On Location, I’ll Be There, and Postcards From—place the artist in the local community as wanderer, citizen, loiterer, and observer.

Lisa Sigal’s Line-up began a proposal to make a “painting” on the urban landscape of New York, starting in and visible from the Museum as Hub space. Over time, the project has developed into communication, negotiation, and organization with neighborhood residents, businesses, public works, and eventually artists working with Museum as Hub partners.

This program is in conjunction with “Museum as Hub: Six Degrees,” on view in the fifth-floor Museum as Hub space through January 11, 2009.

*This event is free with Museum admission but tickets are required. Tickets are available at the Visitor Services Desk.

Banner image:
Lisa Sigal, Line-up, 2008, paint, Tyvek, vinyl mesh, map, compasses, and documentation. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Benoit Palley

Sponsors TOP

This discussion is made possible by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

Museum as Hub is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

Seeds of Tolerance

With additional generous support from Metlife Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

Profiles TOP

Dave McKenzie

Born 1977 in Kingston, Jamaica, Dave McKenzie graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, P.S.1 National Studio Program, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He presented solo exhibitions at the Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Small A Projects, Portland; Gallery 40000, Chicago; and Savage Art Resources, Portland. His work has also been included in PERFORMA 07, New York; "Freestyle," Studio Museum in Harlem; Queens International, Queens Museum of Art; "24/7," Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; and "Listening to New Voices," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City. In 2005, McKenzie was the recipient of the William H. Johnson Prize and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. He lives and works in Brooklyn.


Lisa Sigal

Lisa Sigal was born in 1962 in Philadelphia. Her work lies at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Her constructions insinuate themselves into the fabric of the built environment. She will take a Sheetrock wall, cut into it, pull back sections, poke a sightline through to a false or a found wall on which she has exposed or composed a painted surface. Sigal's work frames a view that often blurs the distinction between what is found and what is made, and ultimately what is real. The core of her work questions the formal and philosophical stability of structure. Recent exhibitions include: the Whitney Biennial (2008), "Tent Paintings," Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (2007), "The Orpheus Selection," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2007), "Make It Now," Sculpture Center, Long Island City (2005), and "A House of Many Mansions," the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2005). Sigal lives and works in Brooklyn.


Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Ginger Brooks Takahashi was born in 1977 and lives in Brooklyn, NY, maintaining a social, project-based practice. She is co-founder of LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and "projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE" project, a traveling exhibition of artist books and zines. She received her BA from Oberlin College, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, and is a resident artist at Smack Mellon, 2008–09. Her work has been shown in the following recent exhibitions: "Shared Women" at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2007; "Exile of the Imaginary" at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2007; and "Locally Localized Gravity" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2007. She has presented public projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 2008; documenta 12, Kassel, 2007; Art Metropole, Toronto, 2007; and with Ridykeulous at The Kitchen, NY, 2007.