“DON’T FEED THE ANIMALS”
Yolanda Dominguez • Sean Fader • Nate Hill • Richard Jochum • Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares
Curated by FIT Art Market students, Class of 2013, School of Graduate Studies
May 2 – 25, 2013
The Art Market MA program at FIT is pleased to present Don't Feed the Animals, a group show featuring works by contemporary artists who transgress social norms to reveal the ways people respond to actions performed out of context. Working in a variety of mediums, the artists shock, amuse and satirize social behaviors by setting up absurd or outlandish situations to provoke viewers into questioning personal standards and the accepted rules of society.
In videos and stills of performances, several of the artists in Don't Feed the Animals make themselves intimately available to strangers: Nate Hill – dressed in a dolphin mascot costume – offers to let subway riders bounce on his lap, while Sean Fader invites people to make a wish by stroking his chest hair. Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares engage in a prolonged public kissing session while riding up and down a busy escalator, and Yolanda Dominguez criticizes the farcicality of the fashion industry in her videos, which show everyday women, who strike model poses in crowded public spaces that make themlook rather absurd and cause concern from people walking by.
Don't Feed the Animals is organized by FIT Art Market students, Class of 2013, School of Graduate Studies. In their second year, students take a two-semester practicum in which they organize, curate, and promote a group exhibition. They graduate from the program with the knowledge, skills, and experience needed for professional careers in the art market. The 2013 curators are Lisbet Krogslund Bertelsen, Rose Frisenda, Elizabeth Landau, Vivian Lee, Anna Matos, Kathleen Mulvey, Marcela Nascimento, and Kara Romano.
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the show. For further information, please contact [email protected].