Queens Museum: Jan 21st -- 'Point Reflection' w/ Sasamoto + 'Other-Worlding' Touch Tour ....

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Sculpture with Unisphere in the background, c. 1964. Black & white negative film scan.
Provenance research in-progress. Courtesy Queens Museum, 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair Collection, New York.

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Point Reflection, a geometric phenomenon of one point mirrored across an axis, is the title for both the exhibition and new performance by Aki Sasamoto. In Sasamoto’s exhibition, kinetic sculptures – including snail shells, melamine sponges and sugar packets – perform abstract concepts of craving and unpredictability as the artist’s proxy. Taking place in the highly structured environment of the gallery, Sasamoto’s live performance responds to questions such as “when did you decide to go the other way?” with signature improvisational acts including unscripted spoken words, modified objects, blowing air, live sounds, and lighting.

Point Reflection («Punto de reflexión»), fenómeno geométrico de un punto que se refleja a lo largo de un eje, es el título tanto de la exposición como de la nueva actuación de Aki Sasamoto. En la exposición de Sasamoto, las esculturas cinéticas (entre las que encontramos caracolas, esponjas de melamina y paquetes de azúcar) presentan conceptos abstractos de ansia e impredecibilidad como representantes del artista. La actuación en directo de Sasamoto, que se realiza en el entorno rígidamente estructurado de la galería, trata preguntas como «¿cuándo decidió tomar otro camino?» con improvisaciones de autor, como fragmentos orales sin guion, objetos modificados, aire soplado, sonidos en directo e iluminación.

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Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join Emilie L. Gossiaux on a touch tour of her exhibition, Other-Worlding. Core to this program is the idea of touch and access as love. Participants will learn about the proper way to touch art with consent and care. They will experience Gossiaux’s sculptural installation White Cane Maypole Dance through touch and verbal description, as well as the artist’s explanation of her process.

Lxs visitantes ciegxs o con problemas de visión pueden acompañar a Emilie L. Gossiaux a la visita guiada táctil de su exposición, Other-Worlding («Otra Mundanalidad»). La base de este programa es la idea del tacto y la accesibilidad como manifestaciones de amor, y lxs participantes aprenderán a tocar las obras de arte con consentimiento y cuidado. Podrán vivir la instalación escultural de Gossiaux White Cane Maypole Dance a través del tacto y de las descripciones verbales, así como la explicación del proceso por parte de la artista.

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In conjunction with her solo exhibition, to reverberate tenderly, artist sonia louise davis invites musicians Rena Anakwe, Sarah Galdes, and Sugar Vendil to improvise with her three steel instruments, or sounders, for the first of two performances in the gallery space. Performers will use percussion, string, voice, and other experimental techniques to respond to the exhibition’s multi-sensory environment and davis’ large-scale mural, score for Queens Museum (2023). This performance will be accompanied by a guided free play, where visitors are invited to interact with the instruments in the gallery.

En combinación con su exposición en solitario, to reverberate tenderly («reverberar con ternura»), la artista sonia louise davis invita a lxs músicxs Rena Anakwe, Sarah Galdes y Sugar Vendil a improvisar con sus tres instrumentos de acero, o sounders, en la primera de sus dos actuaciónes en el espacio de la galería. Lxs intérpretes utilizarán percusión, cuerda, voz y otras técnicas experimentales para responder al entorno multisensorial de la exposición y al mural a gran escala de davis, score for Queens Museum (2023). Esta performance incluye un juego libre guiado en el que se invita a lxs visitantes a interactuar con los instrumentos de la galería.

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The Queens Museum is hiring for two full-time roles – Individual Giving and Events Manager, and Development Assistant – as well as part-time Teaching Artist roles. Benefits for full-time roles include flexible remote work policy, generous PTO, 12 paid holidays per year, Medical, Dental, Vision, and Retirement benefits. Bilingual candidates and Queens residents are encouraged to apply.

El Queens Museum busca candidatxs para dos puestos – Administradorx de donaciones individuales y eventos, y Asistente de desarrollo – a tiempo completo, así como Artistas docentes a tiempo parcial. Entre los beneficios de los puestos a tiempo completo están: política flexible de trabajo en remoto, permisos remunerados de forma generosa, 12 días de vacaciones remunerados al año, beneficios médicos, de salud dental y de visión y beneficios de jubilación. Animamos a lxs candidatxs bilingües y residentes en Queens a solicitar el puesto.

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Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection is made possible in part by lead support from the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Japan Foundation, The Kraus Family Foundation, Grace Trust Foundation, Waterfall Arts Foundation, Bortolami Gallery, and Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.Emilie L. Gossiaux: Other-Worlding is made possible in part by lead support from the Jerome Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Untitled Art x Pébéo Production Prize, and Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.

sonia louise davis: to reverberate tenderly is made possible in part by lead support from the Jerome Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Queens Museum Exhibitions Circle.

The Queens Museum is housed in the New York City Building, which is owned by the City of New York.

The Museum is supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Mayor Eric Adams, the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, and the New York City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne E. Adams.

Major funding is generously provided by the Booth Ferris Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Jerome Foundation, Mellon Foundation, the MacMillan Family Foundation, the Lambent Foundation, E.A. Michelson Philanthropy and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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Images: 2) Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection, performance at the Queens Museum. Photo courtesy Queens Museum, credit Hai Zhang. 3) Installation view, Emilie L. Gossiaux: Other-Worlding (December 6, 2023 – April 7, 2024). Photo courtesy Queens Museum, credit Hai Zhang. 4) Installation view, sonia louise davis: to reverberate tenderly (December 6, 2023 – April 7, 2024). Photo courtesy Queens Museum, credit Hai Zhang.

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