The latest exhibition at Forever & Today, Inc. is one that places the viewer in a space that is both singular and varied. Ian Pedigo’s transformation of Chinatown’s storefront alternative art space takes the notion of a small business office and, while applying it to the art curator’s workspace, exposes the inner workings of the curatorial process from its seams.
Curators Ingrid Chu and Savannah Gorton have essentially opened up their roles of running a contemporary non-profit art space into its own sort of performance, both for and by way of artist Ian Pedigo’s intentions. Traditionally seen as separate yet connected, Office Hours takes the interdependent spaces of the curatorial office and the artist’s studio and places them in the same, centralized locale. Signaling the melding of artistic and curatorial process, Ian Pedigo will employ materials typically found in the non-profit workspace like office furniture and carpeting.
The public is invited to partake in discussion 12-6pm, Thursday-Sunday. Additionally, Forever & Today will host casual open Happy Hours each Friday in February from 6-7pm. Featured in Collective Show New York, Forever & Today is “an organization with no fixed identity and a playful sensibility, curated and commissioned projects may take the form of exhibitions, site-specific installations, publications, editions, and public programs that focus on a collaboration with a single artist, collective, or collaborative entity.” Check the images below to see Jasper Sebastian Stürup’s work for the organization’s section of Collective Show.
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