The Humming Room Moma

And in this presentation the humming room will undergo a slight but significant change.

The humming room moma.

43 works online show previous results. S the humming room 2012 a participatory installation that instructs its audience to hum before it enters a. Performance in photography since 1960 jan 28 may 9 2011 moma the talent show dec 12 2010 apr 4 2011 moma ps1 adrian piper has 24 exhibitions online. A moma retrospective showcases the fraught intimacy and identity play that have long characterized the artist s work.

A synthesis of intuitions 1965 2016 at the museum of modern art photo by the author for hyperallergic. From those satirical voices throughout the show to the humming room. Artist s 2018 retrospective at the museum of modern art new york will be the first time in moma s history that the work of a living artist will occupy the entirety of its sixth floor special exhibitions gallery. At moma works such as black box white box 1992 the humming room 2012 and 2013 s imagine trayvon martin ask us to do what many contemporary works that call out inequality and hatred do not.

At one point the path through the exhibition requires you to traverse the humming room an empty space where you must hum a tune in order to enter you choose the tune but you have to hum. In doing so the exhibition does much to rightly remind viewers of piper s legacy as a first rate thinker who reformed conceptual practice to include personal subjectivity of herself. Installation view of adrian piper. Moma contemporary collection nov 16 2011 feb 9 2014 moma staging action.