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From: glove-AT-thing.net
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:38:25 -0500
Subject: MOMA, 21 April, 6-8pm


For Immediate Release
Contact Person: Cindy Tower
(718) 386-4531
3 April 2000

---C H E C K E D---
---C H E C K E D---
---C H E C K E D---
---C H E C K E D---

---A collaborative
---Art Show
---Of Checked Coats

---Featuring Work
---By 40 Artists

---At

---Museum Of Modern Art (M.O.M.A.)
---New York, NY 10019

---Good Friday,

On Good Friday, April 21, 2000, 6-8 pm, 40 artists will check their artwork
inside their coats, into the MOMA coat room.

The playful intent of the project is to locate an artistic happening
somewhere in the vast physical and abstracted chasm between the artist's
imaginations and the brick and mortar institutions that ratify and reify
their creative ambitions.

The show will simultaneously occupy the most public and the most private of
spaces. The event occurs inside the walls of one of the most visible of all
art cathedrals, but it exists most tangibly inside the heads, or rather the
coats of the participating artists, unseen by 99% of MOMA's visitors.

The "audience" for the show will consist almost exclusively of the artists
themselves and their immediate circle of friends.

Checked's further intent is to "sanctify" the "exhibited" work in much the
same way religious institutions sanctify relics by palcing them in the
shrouded cavities of their most holy sites. The relocation of the art
objects in Checked to this holy site will contribute to their
beautification, for they will become seasoned with meaning, metaphor and
historic significance.

While the major theme is that of transubstantiation, sub themes include
longing, loss, accessibility, inclusiveness. Checked can't help but be a
comfy viewing experience since the whole show exists only in the minds of
it's willing collaborators. Check it out.



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