life on
mars
55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
Audio/Video Library
Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
Posted 10|13|08
Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
Posted 09|29|08
Remainder, a new process/performance by Attack Theatre: Phase one
Posted 09|23|08
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Attack Theatre: Remainder, Phase Two
Thurs., Jan. 8
Attack Theatre dancers return to Carnegie Museum of Art for Phase Two of Remainder, a 10-month process/performance inspired by Life on Mars.
Daily film screenings of Sharon Lockhart's Pine Flat in Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
2:00 p.m. daily
Additional screening Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Running time: 138 min.
schedule is subject to change
Artists
Rivane Neuenschwander
Born: 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Lives and Works: Belo Horizonte
Rivane Neuenschwander's art has the precisely orchestrated, unforced economy of what she has termed "ethereal materialism" and frequently involves modest materials. Often apparent is her fascination with serendipity and the agency of living systems, such as garden snails that munch away at rice-paper squares or ants that orchestrate a parade of confetti dots. The activation of sensory memory and trusting the realization of her work to the generosity of other people or nonhuman organisms frequently sparks Neuschwander's work to life. In I Wish Your Wish, the artist invites viewers to select a ribbon imprinted with a wish and leave behind a wish of their own. The ribbon can be tied to the wrist and worn until it falls off at which point the wish may be realized. The video Pangaea (2008) takes its title from the vast land mass that existed on earth about 250 million years ago, before this "supercontinent" broke apart into the land masses we know today. Neuenschwander used a stop-frame animation technique to record hundreds of ants as they crawled over and ate a plate of carpaccio meat, giving the viewer the sense that these tiny insects are moving and shaping an evolving map of the world.
Links: Rivane Neuenschwander at Walker Art Center; Review of Rivane Neuenschwander exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar