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Francis
Alÿs
November 9
Francis Alÿs's artistic practice falls into many genres--drawing,
painting, video, film, photography, and performance. Alÿs
is particularly interested in creating gestures that are witnessed,
discussed, experienced, and remembered by many. In 2002, in
collaboration with the Public Art Fund and the Museum of Modern
Art, Alÿs organized The
Modern Procession, a celebratory march commemorating
the temporary re-location of MoMA from Manhattan to Queens.
A Peruvian band led over 150 participants from MoMA (53rd
Street and 5th Avenue) through the streets of mid-town Manhattan
and over the Queensboro Bridge to MoMA QNS (33rd Street at
Queens Boulevard). Both festive and ceremonial, the procession
made MoMA's historic transition both visible and public, linking
the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens in a spectacular and
memorable way.
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Janet
Cardiff
November 30
Janet Cardiff is perhaps best known for her signature audio
walks, which she has made in London, Florence, San Francisco,
St. Louis, and elsewhere. Her gallery installations--often
made with George Bures Miller, Cardiff's husband and artistic
collaborator--use the narrative and technical language of
film noir to create lush, suspenseful sound and video works.
In 2004, the Public Art Fund commissioned Her
Long Black Hair, a 35-minute journey through Central
Park that transformed an everyday stroll through the park
into an absorbing psychological and physical experience. Viewers
participated in Cardiff's narrative, retracing the footsteps
of an enigmatic dark-haired woman through a sensory investigation
of fact and fiction, interwoven with local history, opera,
gospel music, and other atmospheric and cultural elements.
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Pierre
Huyghe
December
7
Pierre Huyghe has gained international prominence for creating
a diverse body of work that explores the structures of popular
culture in everyday life. Huyghe utilizes film, video, sound,
animation, sculpture, and architecture to investigate the
borders between fiction and reality and memory and history.
His projects employ a diverse range of references including
nineteenth-century utopian social projects, Hollywood films,
contemporary fiction, and romantic landscape painting. In
December 2002, Pierre Huyghe created L'Expedition Scintillante:
A Musical at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the first stage of
a much larger project. Using the three different floors of
the building, he created three different environments which
reflected three acts in a musical. In January 2005 Huyghe
will undertake the second part of the project. Together with
a group of like-minded artists, he will chart a boat for one
month in the Antarctic. The final part of the project will
be presented at the Musee D'Art Moderne in Paris and at the
Tate Gallery, London in 2006.
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