IN CONVERSATION,
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
4:00PM
ARMORY LIVE THEATER
Featuring artists Sanford Biggers, Dominique Fung, and Nicholas Galanin – moderated by Eugenie Tsai, Independent Curator.
The 2024 Platform section titled Collective Memory, curated by Eugenie Tsai, focuses on large-scale installations and site-specific works that explore the interplay of memory, material, and spirit. In dialogue with participating Platform artists, this panel will discuss the artists' selection of materials and imagery to create artworks which draw from personal and cultural histories. The conversation will consider the visual elements of the exhibited works, probing how they create meaning.
Dominique Fung, Vase Transmitting Signals, 2021. Image by Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy of the artist and Jeffrey Deitch, New York.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
SANFORD BIGGERS
Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current happenings while examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often-overlooked aesthetic, cultural, historical, and political narratives through his use of antique quilts and textiles, classical sculptures from around the world, sonic interventions, performances, and video. Biggers describes his process as “conceptual patchworking,” a method of transposing, combining, and juxtaposing ideas, forms, and genres that challenge traditional historiography, provenance, and official narratives to create artworks for a future ethnography.
Photo by Gioncarlo Valentine.
DOMINIQUE FUNG
Dominique Fung is a Canadian artist with ancestry in Hong Kong and Shanghai, whose practice explores the subliminal liminal territory in which tradition, memory and legacy seep through our collective subconsciousness. Through her interest in casting light on overlooked or forgotten stories and her use of specific historical artifacts she infuses with living qualities and complex non-linear narrative paths, she models a new, broader, alternative space of belonging.
Now based in New York, Fung received her BAA from Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Design in Oakville, Canada, in 2009. Recent exhibitions include (Up)Rooted, Massimo de Carlo, London (2023, solo); A Tale of Ancestral Memories, Rockefeller Center, New York (2023, public art project); Orrizonti, Casa Masaccio - Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno (2023); MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023); Objects for Comfort in the Afterlife, Pond Society, Shanghai (2022, solo); Crossing, Kotaro Nukaga, Roppongi (2022); In Bloom, Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris (2022); Wonder Women, curated by Kathy Huang, Jeffrey Deitch, New York and Los Angeles (2022); Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2022). Selected public collections include the Cantor Art Center of Stanford University, San Francisco; the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino; Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum ( LACMA); MOCA, and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; M+ Museum, Hong Kong.
Courtesy of Dominique Fung.
NICHOLAS GALANIN
Nicholas Galanin (b. 1979) is a Lingit/Unangax̂ multidisciplinary artist whose work explores contemporary culture through a connection to land. His art, deeply rooted in critical thought, challenges the commodification of culture and expands the dialogue on Indigenous artistic production. Galanin’s works engage the past, present, and future to uncover collective memory and cultural knowledge. He employs diverse materials and processes, creating pieces that are political, generous, and poetic. Galanin apprenticed with master carvers, holds a BFA from London Guildhall University and an MFA from Massey University, and lives with his family in Sitka, Alaska.
Courtesy of Nicholas Galanin.
EUGENIE TSAI
Eugenie Tsai is a curator and writer based in New York. After sixteen years, she recently stepped down from her position as the John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum. During those years, she shaped the Contemporary collection, and organized around forty loan and collection exhibitions. Before taking up her position at the Brooklyn Museum, Eugenie worked at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens as Director of Curatorial Affairs, and at the Whitney Museum in various curatorial roles including Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs.
Photo by Marco Giugliarelli.
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