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30/4/2013

Arlen Austin

New Museum, New York

As part of the New Museum of Contemporary Art's Ideas City, Scaramouche is pleased to present "Art-Pedagogy Fun-Time Alternative-Economies Discourse-Adventure" a new performance by Arlen Austin.

For Ideas City 2013 Austin proposes a performative project modeled on a traditional panel discussion. In relation to the theme of the festival, "Untapped Capital," the performance will consider the panel form itself as a type of resource open to play, performance, and interactivity.

In keeping with his recent work for the Hanns Eisler Nail Salon (H.E.N.S.), Austin will reconfigure the panel format as a site for play and structured contestation, in this case applied to examining alternative economic models and structures for mutual aid in times of crises and recession. The performance/panel will incorporate straightforward questions to participants - human and sock puppet - as well as scripts that have been pre-formulated to represent established ideological positions. The performance will end with a genuine question-and-answer session in which both puppets and human participants field questions from the audience.

Arlen Austin (1981, Maine) received his MFA from Columbia University in 2008. He was a founding member of the Die Störung Collective, and is the author of the Hanns Eisler Nail Salon (H.E.N.S.), a gallery, nail salon and worker center amalgam with Jason Boughton. As Fabrications Director and Ingenue for H.E.N.S., Austin has produced culture for the Hessel Museum, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Ludlow 38, Exit Art, and Scaramouche, among others. He is the recipient of a Public Art Fund Development Grant and has precariously labored at Columbia University, Pratt Institute and Bard College. Austin and his collective work have been reviewed in Artforum.com, Modern Painters, and The New York Times.

Ideas City explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work, and play. Founded by the New Museum in 2011, Ideas City is a major collaborative initiative between hundreds of arts, education, and civic organizations. This year's theme is Untapped Capital, with participants focused on resources that are under-recognized or underutilized in our cities. Ideas City is a four-day festival of conferences and workshops, an innovative StreetFest around the Bowery, and more than one hundred independent projects and public events that are forums for exchanging ideas, proposing solutions, and accelerating creativity.

Press contacts:
Gabriel Einsohn, Communications Director press@newmuseum.org
Andrea Schwan, Andrea Schwan Inc. info@andreaschwan.com

Performance Date: Wednesday May 1, 2013 12N-1pm

New Museum
235 Bowery, New York

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