Photos: Erin Goldberger for Dia
Docent
DIA:BEACON
2007-2015
Public Tours
Focused Tours
Community Free Day Tours
o Teaching artist for the Spring Benefit, 2010, 2012
Programming for children attending the Dia Spring Benefit
Educational activities and a focused tour
o Docent, 2007-2015
Public Tours, Educational Tours, and Focused Tours of the collection at Dia:Beacon
o Artist in Residence at the Beacon Elementary School, 2010
Educated second grade students about the collection through original games, focused tours, and workshops
2007-2015
Public Tours
Focused Tours
Community Free Day Tours
o Teaching artist for the Spring Benefit, 2010, 2012
Programming for children attending the Dia Spring Benefit
Educational activities and a focused tour
o Docent, 2007-2015
Public Tours, Educational Tours, and Focused Tours of the collection at Dia:Beacon
o Artist in Residence at the Beacon Elementary School, 2010
Educated second grade students about the collection through original games, focused tours, and workshops
DIA:BEACON
COMMUNITY FREE DAY TOUR WITH CRICHTON ATKINSON
Perspective:
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees
Brief Description:
Perspective is both a mental outlook and a tool in the production of art. In this tour we will explore the collection at Dia:Beacon from multiple vantage points both literally and figuratively. The audience will be asked to look at works from up-close, far away, quickly, slowly, to smell and sense the work. How does the body’s relationship to the art complete the object? If the work is finalized by the viewer and the site is intended to be returned to, what about our perspective changes in time? How do we effect the work, how does the work reveal our subjective and physical positions?
Longer Description:
You have to be present with the collection at Dia:Beacon to truly grasp its intention. Images found online or in books do not do justice to the sensory involvement of artists like Richard Serra and Fred Sandback. The size, scale, and measured relationship of the object to your body is a part of Donald Judd’s art, your proximity to its construction is vital to understanding the specificity of its form. These indicators have a grand metaphor attached- reality is a product of your senses and experience. The galleries at Dia evoke awareness of perspective because of the intentional simplicity. This crossroads of our nature encountering the alterity of the galleries is explored with subtlety and grace in the light filled halls of the repurposed Nabisco box printing factory. How does the information about the work change if you are up-close, far away, if you move quickly, or slowly? Can you smell the materials, is there lightness or a weight that you sense when standing next to them? Please join us on a tour that approaches the collection in terms of the body’s relationship to the materiality of art and the volume of space.
COMMUNITY FREE DAY TOUR WITH CRICHTON ATKINSON
Perspective:
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees
Brief Description:
Perspective is both a mental outlook and a tool in the production of art. In this tour we will explore the collection at Dia:Beacon from multiple vantage points both literally and figuratively. The audience will be asked to look at works from up-close, far away, quickly, slowly, to smell and sense the work. How does the body’s relationship to the art complete the object? If the work is finalized by the viewer and the site is intended to be returned to, what about our perspective changes in time? How do we effect the work, how does the work reveal our subjective and physical positions?
Longer Description:
You have to be present with the collection at Dia:Beacon to truly grasp its intention. Images found online or in books do not do justice to the sensory involvement of artists like Richard Serra and Fred Sandback. The size, scale, and measured relationship of the object to your body is a part of Donald Judd’s art, your proximity to its construction is vital to understanding the specificity of its form. These indicators have a grand metaphor attached- reality is a product of your senses and experience. The galleries at Dia evoke awareness of perspective because of the intentional simplicity. This crossroads of our nature encountering the alterity of the galleries is explored with subtlety and grace in the light filled halls of the repurposed Nabisco box printing factory. How does the information about the work change if you are up-close, far away, if you move quickly, or slowly? Can you smell the materials, is there lightness or a weight that you sense when standing next to them? Please join us on a tour that approaches the collection in terms of the body’s relationship to the materiality of art and the volume of space.
Dia Spring Benefit 2012
Robert Smithson traveled to the Yucatan where he displaced the sky in the ground, wondered via roads and locations, layered history and covered place with form. The existence of locations that never existed except in storytelling, of the presence of Mayan gods, all the anthropomorphic forms that arise through language and artifice are part of our concept of life, they have a weight. Everything we know about life is from the great history keeper of stone.
At the Gala the children located and named places on a map of Atlantis while creating characters that could have lived there, writing a mythology and creating systems of belief through performance.
At the Gala the children located and named places on a map of Atlantis while creating characters that could have lived there, writing a mythology and creating systems of belief through performance.