Major

Mon, Apr 6 – 7, 2009

Free for all volunteers (directions)

YTJ: Building Rome in a Day: A Participatory Performance Work Organized by Liz Glynn and Executed by a Coalition of the Willing

 
Workshops

On April 7, you are invited to join Los Angeles-based artist Liz Glynn and an army of fellow volunteers to build Rome in a day.  Using salvaged building material and cardboard, we will recreate the ancient capitol beginning with the thatched hut of Romulus 753 BC and ending in the sacking or Rome by the Visigoths in AD 410. 

E-mail rebuildrome@gmail.com to sign up for a time slot.

This performance is part of The Generational: Younger Than Jesus.

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“The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” is made possible by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Major support is provided by the Friends of the Generational, co-chaired by Maja Hoffman and Dakis Joannou; Steering Committee Members Lonti Ebers and J. Bruce Flatt, Lorinda Ash Ezersky and Peter Ezersky, Ken Kuchin, and Randy Slifka; and Friends Shelley Fox Aarons and Phil Aarons, Hilary and Peter Hatch, Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis, Toby Devan Lewis, and Lisa Schiff.

Additional significant support is made possible by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Fund, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Special thanks also to the New Museum’s Leadership Council: Cesar Cervantes, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg, Maria and João Oliveira-Rendeiro, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Ellen and Michael Ringier, and Pamela and Arthur Sanders.

Support for artist travel and participation provided, in part, by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway. Support for the accompanying publications is made possible by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum.

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Liz Glynn

Born 1981, Boston
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education
California Institute of the Arts, 2008
Harvard College, 2003

Awards and Professional Experience
2007
Joan Mitchell Foundation Associate Artist Fellowship
2006
Vermont Studio Center Residency
2004
Alfred Alcalay Prize

Selected Solo and Collaborative Exhibitions and Performances
2008
The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, performance, Machine Project, Los Angeles
“Pick Up the Pieces,” California Institute of the Arts
 2006
“Liz Glynn: r.r.r.,” Center for Integrated Media, Valencia

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
“The Graduation,” Union Station, Los Angeles

2007
“Bodily Function,” Stevenson Blanche Gallery, Valencia
“Late Night Snack,” Beta Level, Los Angeles
2006
“Flex Your Textiles,” John Connolly Presents, New York City
“Summer Thunder,” Art Gotham, New York City
2005
“ARTSHOW,” 486 Broadway, New York City
“VoxEnnial,” Vox Populi, Philadelphia
2003
“what have we done,” Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge