Greater New York, 2005
Group exhibition
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
March 13, 2005, through September 26, 2005
Led by Klaus Biesenbach, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Robert Nickas, Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry, Ann Temkin

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4834

Works included in the exhibition:

Magic Fingers, 2003
Frame, picture light, hand or Will Return sign
Dimensions variable

and

If You Go Away, 2005
Player piano, stool, lamp
Dimensions variable

Magic Fingers, 2003 is a performance-sculpture where I sit behind the gallery wall with only my framed hand visible to gallery viewers. I hold my hand in art historical gestures for minutes at a time so that it is not clear if my hand is real. Many visitors assume it is mechanical. When I need to take breaks I hang a Will Return sign in the frame. The entrance to behind the wall is concealed so viewers do not know how the artwork is installed. The longest I have inhabited this artwork is for six months at MoMA PS1’s Greater New York 2005 exhibition.

If You Go Away, 2005 is a player piano playing an arrangement of “If You Go Away” 1959 by Jacques Brel with a stool.