(Your Show Here) is an interactive forum that lets the user create his own exhibition. He is invited to sit at the computer terminal, browse a database of twentieth-century art images, choose up to five, write a curatorial statement, and title the show. The digital images are instantly projected at the scale of the original objects, creating a gallery of virtual works of art at the click of a button. The exhibition's duration is fleeting, since each show is replaced by that of the next "visiting curator," but a print-out of the user's selections can be posted on a bulletin board near the gallery entrance.
Ultimately, (Your Show Here) reveals the power of images to tell vastly different stories and disclose conflicting truths, highlighting the subjectivity inherent in arranging, presenting, and, finally, viewing works of art. In this case, viewing is not static, passive, and scripted, as it often is in the museum context. Instead, without the active participation of the visitor there would be nothing to view.
The project was funded by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in support of MASS MoCA and the Williams/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art.
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Ultimately, (Your Show Here) reveals the power of images to tell vastly different stories and disclose conflicting truths, highlighting the subjectivity inherent in arranging, presenting, and, finally, viewing works of art. In this case, viewing is not static, passive, and scripted, as it often is in the museum context. Instead, without the active participation of the visitor there would be nothing to view.
The project was funded by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in support of MASS MoCA and the Williams/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art.
Agency: Off Register.
