Mildred’s Lane artist project will be discussed at MoMA panel on November 8
Museum of Modern Art, Celeste Bartos Theater
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Monday, November 8, and Wednesday, November 17, $10 each, 6:00
212-708-9781
www.moma.org
On November 8, MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry will moderate “Reinventing Artist Communities” with artists Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett and critic Alastair Gordon, who will be discussing the Mildred’s Lane project, while on November 17 MoMA senior deputy director of curatorial affairs Peter Reed will moderate a talk with artists Andrea Zittel and Lisa Anne Auerbach about their High Desert Test Sites. Dion’s “Rescue Archaeology” uncovered fascinating historical artifacts under MoMA during its renovation and reconstruction earlier this decade, while Puett’s large-scale installations combine living environments with multimedia performance art; the two are collaborating on the Mildred’s Lane Historical Society and Museum in Pennsylvania, which “incorporates questions of our relation to the environment, systems of labor, forms of dwelling, new sociality — all of which compose an ethics of comportment.” Zittel, whose “Small Liberties” Whitney Altria exhibit consisted of customized Wagon Stations, and Auerbach, who keeps journals about the project, are two of the cofounders of High Desert Test Sites, which invites artists to create alternative, experimental living spaces in desert communities “to challenge traditional conventions of ownership, property and patronage.”