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Thu, Nov 13, 2008
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Museum as Hub, 5th floor (directions)

Full Moon POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Music / Performance

Ginger Brooks Takahashi’s quilting forum or “POWERSTITCH” employs traditional craft to de-formalize the exhibition space as productive community space. An ongoing project since 2004, an army of lovers cannot fail, has been shown and worked on all over North America. With its “harmless” motif of rabbits engaged in acts of physical play and sex, the quilt as an object of both work and display documents the participation of many while offering itself to new hands. As invited guests, friends, and visitors stitch the all-white quilt alongside participatory readings on privilege, sex, or society, the work affirms self-organized community formation with regards to ideas of camaraderie, intimacy, or solidarity.

As this POWERSTITCH is taking place on the full moon, please bring a text, story or poem to honor this lunar event. Quilting direction and supplies will be provided.

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.

Ginger Brooks Takahashi is a 2008 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program.

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Ginger Brooks Takahashi, an army of lovers cannot fail, 2004–present
POWERSTITCH at The Compound, April 10, 2008
Photo: Chris Vargas

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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

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.