Ann Hamilton

Large Scale Installations

- Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1956 - BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 - MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1985

- Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship - MacArthur Fellowship - United States Artists Fellowship - NEA Visual Arts Fellowship

EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL

Park Avenue ArmoryNew York, NY December 5, 2012-January 6, 2013

the event of a thread

Overview Video

Pigeon Cages

The event of a thread is made of many crossings of the near at hand and the far away: it is a body crossing space, is a writer’s hand crossing a sheet of paper, is a voice crossing a room in a paper bag, is a reader crossing with a page and with another reader, is listening crossing with speaking, is an inscription crossing a transmission, is a stylus crossing a groove, is a song crossing species, is the weightlessness of suspension crossing the calling of bell or bellows, is touch being touched in return. It is a flock of birds and a field of swings in motion. It is a particular point in space at an instant of time.

the event of a thread

- invocation of place- emphasis on time- influenced by 1960s happenings

the event of a thread

The United States Pavilion48th Venice Biennale 1999June 13, 1999-November 7, 1999

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Materials: four skylights, glass and gridded steel wall (18’ x 90’), wood table, white cloths, mirrored glass, vinyl powder, auger system, electronic controllers, plaster, recorded voice, digital audio, computer, sixteen speakers

http://youtu.be/usy48VQPiDs

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It was a meditation on aspects of American social history that, like weather, are present and pervasive in effect but which remain invisible or unspoken. Her self-given task was to make a place in which this absence could be palpably felt and to create a space simultaneously empty and full.

''She has an approach that almost deliberately tries to circumvent the verbal,'' said Ms. Kline, who is the director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine. ''She invites the viewer into a set of visible and auditory conditions where their entire bodily experience is activated. They are swept into a state of awareness beyond that of the normal viewer. She tries to intrigue the whole body.''

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Is is successful? ''I'm thinking that I am the American representative, and it's the eve of the millennium… I want to bring to the surface the questions we should be asking.'' (quote from the artist)