Time and Attention is a series of ephemeral projects responding to BMoCA as site. Projects include miniature worlds installed in vacated electrical wiring spaces, performances exploring artistic process and the museum, augmented reality drawings, and interactive works inviting viewers to explain themselves without words. MFA students from CU’s Department of Art and Art History developed the work in a graduate seminar, Time and Attention, taught by Professor Jeanne Quinn and Roser Visiting Artist Julie Poitras Santos. Artists in the exhibition are Abi Bernstein, Maya Buffett-Davis, Ethan Cherry, Annaliese Cole-Weiss, Tenaya DeWitt, and Andrea Garcia Vasquez.
Works will be on view on Wednesday, April 23 and Thursday, April 24, with a closing reception from 4-6 on April 24th. Free with Pay From Your Heart museum admission.
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Abi Bernstein - Outside Front Door - Tread Lightly takes place on the front steps and around the dirt/walkways of BMOCA. Raw clay worms, using clay from Boulder Creek, climb around the area for viewers to observe.
Maya Buffett-Davis - Front Desk - How Was Your Experience At BMoCA Today? uses a public survey format to encourage visitors to consider their time at BMoCA in new ways. How do you qualify an artistic experience? How is meaning co-constructed between patron and art institution? How do you explain yourself without words?
Ethan Cherry - 2nd Floor Event Space - Sixteen Pieces of Rice Paper is an installation designed for the 2nd floor, street-facing windows. Ethan created landscape paintings made from observation through the windows in the upstairs space. After making these paintings, Ethan used the leftover paint to color rice papers that are cut to fit in the panes of the upstairs windows. The rice paper pieces are visible from both inside the room and from the street.
Annaliese Cole-Weiss - 2nd Floor Event Space - Hand/Help/Hinder is a durational performance which utilizes myself as performer, raw clay, and choreographed interventions to explore the relationship between the artistic process and the museum space; this work explores the idea of taking a slice of the artist's studio and mind, and placing it in the museum to display the Sisyphean task of molding one’s work to fit the conditions of the museum, and the unending life’s work of art-making. Simultaneously, it asks the questions of when the binary between help and hindrance starts to break down; when does hindering the task become helping the artist?
Tenaya DeWitt - West Gallery - Unseen Architects reimagines small, overlooked or forgotten spaces as homes for tiny beings. The project imagines how these tiny beings might inhabit the cracks, crevices, and forgotten corners of our built environment, drawing attention to the impact we have on the land and the interconnectedness of living things.
Andrea Garcia - QR Code at Front Desk, with AR sculptures around Central Park - Between the viewers and the landscape of Central Park, a variety of virtual shapes are to be found scattered amongst the landscape, people, and activities in the park. Viewers are invited to visit the park with new eyes and ears. Shapes of Silence calls attention to silenced stories and emotions embedded in the local landscape and community.