The Office of Contemporary art presents a question and answer session with the Norwegian artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset at their New York platform on Thursday, April 24.
Elmgreen and Dragset pursue a conscious cultural position that abstracts from issues of power, sex, and marginalized or subcultural behavioural patterns in an alignment with architectonis and style – as ways of emphasizing the “private” as a reflection of the particular, singular, and non-generic in exploring social subject matters of class, privilege, gender, nationality. Molly Nesbit joins artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset in this first time public presentation in New York City approaching their practice and production, as well as their role as theatre directors, assemblers, editors, and now co-curators/artists of both the Danish and Nordic Pavilions for the upcoming Venice Biennale in 2009.
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset live and work in Berlin and have been collaborating since 1995. Through the last decade, they have been showing their works in numerous institutions including Tate Modern, Serpentine Gallery, MCA Chicago, New Museum, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Hamburger Bahnhof, MMK Frankfurt, Louisiana Museum, Moderna Museet, Bergen Kunsthall and Kunsthalle Zürich.
Molly Nesbit is a Professor of Art History at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum. Her books include Atget’s Seven Albums (Yale University Press, 1992) and Their Common Sense (Black Dog, 2000). With Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija she has been organizing “Utopia Station”, an ongoing book, exhibition, seminar, website and street project. She is currently the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
When: Thursday, April 24 at 7pm
Where: OCA, 25 Broadway, 2nd floor
Info: Reservations required by April 22. Email Jørn Mortensen at jorn@oca.no