Series: Manufracture
Exhibition Title: When Artists Enter the Factories
Year: 2019
Medium: Installation | sculpture, installation art, video art, augmented reality (AR)
Venue: Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
Date: Oct 18 – Nov 22, 10am – 4pm daily
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Press Release
See the full description and artwork details in Exhibition Brochure
When Artists Enter the Factories is an invitation to explore the segregated yet inseparable relationship between manufacturing and artmaking in the architectural settings of the Brooklyn Army Terminal. By presenting sculptures, installations, photographs, videos, augmented reality, and a socially engaged project, artists in this exhibition intersect with contemporary manufacturing landscapes to explore their impact on everyday life. This exhibition unpacks entanglements between human and machine as well as the roles of artists and workers, through the refabrication of industrial materials.
When Artists Enter the Factories is also inspired by a large-scale exhibition, Terminal New York, held at this same location in 1983. Thirty-six years later, 16 artists inhabit this former US military supply base, which today is one of the most innovative and accessible manufacturing campuses in New York City. As their creative energies engage with the site and the workers of the Terminal, we welcome the viewers to partake in a range of material and conceptual actions led by artists based here in Brooklyn and other parts of the world.
Participating Artists – Kiichiro Adachi | Ting-Tong Chang | Oreen Cohen | Sara Enrico | Michelle Claire Gevint | Tetsugo Hyakutake | Jia-Jen Lin | Jen Liu | Marykate Maher | Manuel Molina Martagon | Peter AC Nelson | Dikko Faust & Esther K Smith – Purgatory Pie Press | Annesofie Sandal | Ben Sloat | Anssi Taulu | Zorka Wollny
Curator – Jia-Jen Lin
Curatorial Advisor – Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi
This exhibition is sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Additional support by Untitled Association, Rome; the Danish Arts Foundation; the Finnish Cultural Foundation; and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Production Partnership includes MakerSpace NYC, Rvinyl, and Vendome Exhibits.
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Cover Image: Jen Liu, The Machinist’s Lament (still image), 2014/Image courtesy of the artist and Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Photograph by Kuo-Heng Huang, NYCEDC, Oreen Cohen, Tetsugo Hyakutake, and Manuel Molina Martagon.
Artworks Copyright reserved by the artists.
