NEW MUSEUM
“Songs for Sabotage,”
the Fourth New Museum Triennial,
Opening: 13. February 2018
Artists: Cian Dayrit -Violet Dennison -Tomm El-Saieh
Janiva Ellis -Claudia Martínez Garay -Haroon Gunn-Salie
Matthew Angelo Harrison -Tiril Hasselknippe
Inhabitants (Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva)
KERNEL (Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, and Theodoros Giannakis)
Manolis D. Lemos – Zhenya Machneva – Chemu Ng’ok
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude – Daniela Ortiz – Lydia Ourahmane
Hardeep Pandhal – Dalton Paula – Julia Phillips – Wong Ping
Anupam Roy – Manuel Solano -Diamond Stingily – Song Ta
Wilmer Wilson IV – Shen Xin
Co-curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari,
Kraus Family Curator /New Museum, and Alex Gartenfeld
Exhibition: February 13– May 27, 2018
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
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https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/2018-triennial-songs-for-sabotage
The New Museum New York, NY
2018 Triennial, “
Songs for Sabotage
view from February 13–May 27, 2018.
Filling four floors of the Museum, the fourth iteration of the
Triennial is co-curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum, and Alex Gartenfeld, founding Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
Together, the artists in “Songs for Sabotage” propose a kind of propaganda, engaging with new and traditional media in order to reveal the built systems that construct our reality, images, and truths. The exhibition amounts to a call for action, an active engagement, and an interference in political and social structures, and will bring together works across mediums by approximately thirty artists from nineteen countries, the majority of whom are exhibiting in the United States for the first time.
“Songs for Sabotage” explores interventions into cities, infrastructures, and the networks of everyday life, proposing objects that might create common experience. The exhibition takes as a given that these structures are linked to the entrenched powers of colonialism and institutionalized racism that magnify inequity. Through their distinct approaches, the artists in “Songs for Sabotage” offer models for dismantling and replacing the political and economic networks that envelop today’s global youth. Invoking the heightened role of identity in today’s culture, they take on the technological, economic, and material structures that stand in the way of collectivity.
These artists are further connected by both their deep engagements with the specificity of local context and a critical examination—and embrace—of the internationalism that links them. Their works range widely in medium and form, including painted allegories for the administration of power, sculptural proposals to renew (and destroy) monuments, and cinematic works that engage the modes of propaganda that influence us more and more each day. Viewed in ensemble, these works provide models for reflecting upon and working against a system that seems doomed to failure.
“Songs for Sabotage” is curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum, and Alex Gartenfeld, founding Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, with Francesca Altamura, Curatorial Assistant. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue copublished by the New Museum and Phaidon Press Limited.
Claudia Martínez Garay, The Leftovers (detail), 2016, mixed media, 12 x 15′. Installation view, Ginsberg Galería, Lima.
ABOUT THE TRIENNIAL
The New Museum Triennial is the only recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to emerging artists from around the world, providing an important platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of culture. The first edition was initiated in 2009 with “Younger Than Jesus,” organized by Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, and Lauren Cornell. The second Triennial, “The Ungovernables,” was organized by Eungie Joo in 2012. The third Triennial, “Surround Audience,” was organized by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin with Sara O’Keeffe and Helga Christoffersen in 2015.
ARTIST LIST
Cian Dayrit (b. 1989, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Rizal, Philippines)
Violet Dennison (b. 1989, Bridgeport, CT; lives and works in New York, NY)
Tomm El-Saieh (b. 1984, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives and works in Miami, FL)
Janiva Ellis (b. 1987, Oakland, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)
Claudia Martínez Garay (b. 1983, Ayacucho, Peru; lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Haroon Gunn-Salie (b. 1989, Cape Town, South Africa; lives and works between Johannesburg, South Africa, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Matthew Angelo Harrison (b. 1989, Detroit, MI; lives and works in Detroit, MI)
Tiril Hasselknippe (b. 1984, Arendal, Norway; lives and works in Oslo, Norway)
Inhabitants (founded in 2015, New York, NY, by Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva)
KERNEL (founded in 2009, Athens, Greece, by Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, and Theodoros Giannakis; live and work in Athens, Greece)
Manolis D. Lemos (b. 1989, Athens, Greece; lives and works in Athens, Greece)
Zhenya Machneva (b. 1988, Leningrad, Russia; lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia)
Chemu Ng’ok (b. 1989, Nairobi, Kenya; lives and works in Grahamstown, South Africa)
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude (b. 1988, Harare, Zimbabwe; lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe)
Daniela Ortiz (b. 1985, Cusco, Peru; lives and works in Barcelona, Spain)
Lydia Ourahmane (b. 1992, Saïda, Algeria; lives and works between Oran, Algeria, and London, UK)
Hardeep Pandhal (b. 1985, Birmingham, UK; lives and works in Glasgow, UK)
Dalton Paula (b. 1982, Brasília, Brazil; lives and works in Goiânia, Brazil)
Julia Phillips (b. 1985, Hamburg, Germany; lives and works in New York, NY)
Wong Ping (b. 1984, Hong Kong; lives and works in Hong Kong)
Anupam Roy (b. 1985, West Bengal, India; lives and works in New Delhi, India)
Manuel Solano (b. 1987, Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)
Diamond Stingily (b. 1990, Chicago, IL; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY)
Song Ta (b. 1988, Leizhou, China; lives and works in Guangzhou, China)
Wilmer Wilson IV (b. 1989, Richmond, VA; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA)
Shen Xin (b. 1990, Chengdu, China; lives and works between London, UK, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Sponsors
Lead support is provided by the Friends of the 2018 Triennial.
Co-Chairs:
Shelley Fox Aarons, Lonti Ebers, Ken Kuchin, and Toby Devan Lewis
Friends:
Sarah Arison, Blue Rider Group at Morgan Stanley,
Alexandra Bowes and Stephen Williamson,
James Keith Brown and Eric G. Diefenbach,
Sandra and Leo DelZotto, Rebecca and Marty Eisenberg,
Charlotte Feng Ford, Dr. Kira and Neil Flanzraich,
Carol and Arthur Goldberg, Tina Kim and Jaewoong Chung,
Mario J. Palumbo, Jr. and Stefan Gargiulo, Tom Pegues and Don Capoccia,
Phillips, Lisa Roumell and Mark Rosenthal, Lyn and Sam Schwab,
Laurie and David Wolfert, Neda Young, Rosina Lee Yue
Major support is provided by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation.
Artist commissions are generously supported by the Neeson / Edlis Artist Commissions Fund.
Additional support is provided by Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte.
Support for artist projects, travel, and research is provided by
Sunita and Vijay Choraria, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Carlos Marsano,
Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and V-A-C Foundation.
The accompanying publications were made possible, in part, by the
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum.
Education and community programs are supported, in part, by the American Chai Trust.
https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/2018-triennial-songs-for-sabotage
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