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April 5, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Allison Smith
Bellwether
134 10th AveCome One! Come All!
Please join us to celebrate the release of “Allison Smith: The Muster,” a new book published by the Public Art Fund, at a book party at Bellwether on Thursday, April 5 from 6:30 – 8pm.
Bellwether 134 Tenth Avenue Between 18th and 19th Streets Chelsea
+ Purchase your own copy of the book, hot off the presses. + Get your book signed by the artist and stamped with the official Muster of 2005 embossed seal + See a Muster slide show to the sounds of the Declaration of Causes. + Get your own Muster fan and “farby” label, made by Allison Smith. + Drink beer and lemonade; eat Munster cheese and mustard sandwiches!
Produced with the inimitable flair of the ever-talented graphic designer Jorge Colombo, this book documents the Muster and places it within broader contexts. Included are more than 140 photographs, a foreword by Susan K. Freedman, President of the Public Art Fund, and essays by Tom Eccles, curator of the project and director of the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, James Trainor, US editor for Frieze, Anne Wehr, Communications Director for the Public Art Fund, and “Mustering Officer” Allison Smith. This publication is supported in part by contributions from The Richard J. Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Daniel and Brooke Neidich, and Bellwether.
About The Muster On May the 14th, 2005, artist Allison Smith transformed Governors Island – the former U.S. military base located only minutes by ferry from the southern shore of Manhattan – into a stage for an unforgettable work of public art, commissioned by the Public Art Fund. Inspired by American Civil War battle reenactments, The Muster was a “polyphonic marshalling of voices” in which Smith invited artists and non-artists alike to declare a cause and create a campsite-installation in response to her question: “What are you fighting for?” Combining celebration, art, craft, history and activism, this earnest and jubilant event embodied the complexities of its political, aesthetic, and cultural moment.
Allison Smith is a New York-based artist, whose diverse practice investigates the cultural phenomenon of historical reenactment, or living history, using it as a means of addressing the relationship between American history, social activism, craft, and queer identity. Her work has recently been seen in exhibitions at Artpace San Antonio; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and elsewhere.
Allison Smith: The Muster Foreword by Susan K. Freedman Essays by Tom Eccles, James Trainor, Anne Wehr Texts by Allison Smith Designed by Jorge Colombo Printed by The Studley Press Soft cover / 128 pages / $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-9608488-4-3 Published by the Public Art Fund Distributed by D.A.P. Also available for purchase at Amazon
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