Andrea Fraser speaks with artforum.com about her new work Down the River
Art department professor Andrea Fraser’s work has been identified with performance, video, project-based art, context art, and institutional critique. Surveys of her work have been presented at major institutions worldwide and her essays and performance texts have consistently appeared in important publications. Fraser was a founding member of the feminist performance group, The V-Girls (1986-1996); the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997-1998); and the cooperative art gallery Orchard (2005-2008). She was also co-organizer, with Helmut Draxler, of Services, a “working-group exhibition” that toured to eight venues in Europe and the United States between 1994 and 2001.
New York and Los Angeles–based artist Andrea Fraser speaks about her life and art as well as her site-specific project Down the River, 2016, which is part of the Whitney Museum’s “Open Plan” exhibition series. An extension of her longtime investigation of institutions—also discussed here—the new audio work brings recordings from a correctional facility to the freshly empty space of the museum to comment again on an “increasing inequality in the United States.”
Organized by deputy director for programs and Nancy and Steve Crown family chief curator Scott Rothkopf, with assistant curator Laura Phipps, the work runs daily through Sunday, March 13, 2016.
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