RHINEBACK, NY.- ’T’ Space is opening 'as after is before', a multimedia installation by visual artist, Ann Hamilton. This exhibition will run from July 16 - August 20 at ‘T’ Space Rhinebeck.
Ann Hamilton, recognized for the sensory surround of her large-scale installations, performance collaborations, print projects, and public works makes work responsive to the architectures and social histories of the sites where they are made. Working with cloth, texts spoken and written, animals and people, her installations often weave relationships between language and material-based experiences. Hamilton’s project at ‘T’ Space will be the artist’s first exhibition in the New York area since her acclaimed 2012 Park Avenue Armory project: the event of a thread, and the opening of CHORUS, a permanent public project for the MTA Art in Transit program at WTC/Cortlandt Station in 2018.
The alphabetic footprint of ‘T’ Space, the resonance of its volume, the apertures of light animating its interior, and the surround of trees—are all conditions Hamilton responded to in conceiving her new work as after is before. Working with objects and images found and made—wool coats, sheep fleece, inscribed stone, and recorded sound—the project is, in her words: as outside is to inside as animal is to human as stone is to words as sound is to song as image is to object as made is to grown
In figuring the distance between cloven feet and biped toes, between the animal who makes its coat and the animal who grows one, between time measured in epochs and time measured in decades, between form shaped from heat and pressure and inscription carved by human hand, Hamilton’s project is sound touching at a distance. The elements draw upon her 2018 project Side-by-Side in Guimarães, Portugal, and the images of objects in her recent publication with Radius Books, SENSE, which will be available for purchase at ‘T’ Space.
During the opening event, Ann Lauterbach will be reading from her poetry and will join Hamilton in conversation. The recording will be available on our website: tspacerhinebeck.org.
Hamilton’s exhibition will be on view during Upstate Art Weekend (July 21 - 24) and will feature extended viewing hours and special programing. On July 22 and July 23 from 1PM - 4PM, members from the NYC-based vocal collective, Moving Star—Emily Eagen, Mark Ettinger, Saskia Lane, and Onome—will come together to create an improvisatory vocal response to, and with, the installation in ‘T’ Space and the surrounding woodlands.
Ann Hamilton’s site responsive installations include projects for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Dia Center for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Guggenheim Museum, Park Avenue Armory, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal, Echigo-Tsumsri Art Triennale Niigata Prefecture Japan and Wuzhen China. Her work has been recognized by the National Medal of the Arts, Heinz Award, MacArthur Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, and Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship among others.
She represented the United States in the 1991 Sao Paulo Biennial, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at The Ohio State University. She makes her home in Columbus Ohio.
Ann Lauterbach is the author of 11 books of poetry and three books of essays, including The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience and The Given & The Chosen. Her 2009 collection of poetry, Or to Begin Again, was a finalist for the National book Award. Lauterbach’s work has been recognized by fellowships from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and in 1995, she was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. She is the Ruth and David Schwab II Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. A native of New York City, she lives in Germantown, New York.
Moving Star vocal ensemble is a NYC-based collective of vocalists from diverse backgrounds who share a common interest in vocal improvisation, vocal harmony traditions, and the connections between song, improvisation, composition, and musical memory. Moving Star’s projects have included interactive concerts of both improvised and composed works, workshops on improvisation and participant singing, online multimedia concerts, and the development of immersive operas for babies in tandem with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Institute.
This exhibition is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
“For much of her career, Ann Hamilton has focused on cultivating environments that reorient the attentions of the people inside of them, providing sensual, probing focus to the textures of everyday life. Her landmark exhibitions often involve carefully orchestrated sounds and smells, in addition to live performances and site-specific impositions that transformed galleries into chthonic chambers.”
—The Brooklyn Rail, 2022
’T’ Space
'as after is before'
July 16th, 2023 - August 20th, 2023
