Saturday, May 21, 2.30-5.00 pm Kenyon will be performing Cloud as part of DUMBO Drop.
Following the performance of Cloud, Kenyon will give a short tour of the exhibition Wolf at the Door and answer questions from gallery visitors.
Cloud:In Cloud, house-shaped forms are produced out of helium foam. They shrink and grow in response to real time housing and climate data, then rise to form a “neighborhood” floating for miles in the sky. Cloud demonstrates the cyclic nature of real estate speculation that prospers even in the wake of the most recent housing bubble. The houses, and the home ownership aspirations that are inflated with them, rise only to eventually fall.
In the continual reconstitution of the house-cloud’s form, Cloud also acknowledges the connection between the home and its neighborhood, one that persists, and is always in flux.
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Sunday, May 22, 1.30-2.30 pm Kenyon will be joined by FICTILIS (Andrea Steves and Timothy Furstnau) curators of the Museum of Capitalism for a discussion of the exhibition and its themes. Their book Museum of Capitalism: Expanded Second Edition will also be available for sale.
Following the discussion, Kenyon will lead a community letter writing activity using one of the artworks from the exhibition Alternate Rule in order to demand Action to End Gun Violence.
Alternative Rule: Though it might look like the paper you use to learn penmanship, in Alternative Rule, the lines on the paper are made up of micro-printed names and dates of children who have been victims of gun violence in America. People of all ages are invited to take a sheet of paper and write a letter to members of government to advocate for gun control in America. Alternative Rule is a memorial and a protest tool, created for the activists of the next generation, many of whom are already organizing in their own schools and on the national level.
/IMAGES: Animated GIF from Matt’s Cloud performance at Undercurrent, DUMBO. Captured by Jolie O’Brien.
