Mad Garland (The Making of a Donation to the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA - July 31st, 2011).
Jutta Koether
German, born 1958
Ei Arakawa
Japanese, born 1977
Emily Sundblad
Swedish, born 1977
Stefan Tcherepnin
American, born 1977
2011
A painted wood plank encrusted with mixed materials and liquid glass, assembled by Grand Openings to gather performance detritus and props into a single improvised 'garland' that records and reframes ephemeral activity.
Your eye travels along a low black bar where shiny CDs, translucent fabric, ticket stubs, metal chains, small bones, and smeared paint cling and hang like a sideways stage set strewn with traces of past actions.
By converting the leftovers of live events into a collected object, it continues the lineage of assemblage and performance documentation, questioning how ephemeral gestures are preserved, valued, and transformed when they enter the museum.
Medium
Painted wood plank, mixed materials, liquid glass
Dimensions
58 x 48 x 1 1/2" (147.3 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artists
Accession
818.2011
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
