Nina Katchadourian: Dust Gathering
June 5, 2017 9:41 AM   Subscribe

If you go to MoMA in New York, you can always take an audio tour about the artworks; they are offered in several languages as well as for kids and for the visually impaired. But through this summer, artist Nina Katchadourian has prepared an audio tour about the unwanted element in the museum's collection: the dust.

The audio tour (running through October 1) is available online, and while some stops have a bit more perspective in person, it's still a fascinating listen about a seldom considered aspect of art museums.

She interviews facilities managers, conservators, an allergist and other experts on dust and how it affects art and the museum. You can find out how to clean a Picasso, a helicopter and how many months of dust it takes to build a life-size rabbit.

There is also an exhibit, Curiouser, surveying her work on through this weekend at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin (with an interview, 1, 2), and in the Bay Area you can check out her Floater Theater at the Exploratorium, or catch Curiouser when it goes to Stanford in the fall.

Nina Katchadourian previously on Metafilter:
Sorting cars and fixing spiderwebs
Evoking fifteenth-century Flemish portraiture in the airplane lavatory
Finding creativity with boredom
Sorting the personal library of William S. Burroughs
posted by Homeboy Trouble (2 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
wow, I need to make it to NYC to do this before it's over!
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 10:06 AM on June 5, 2017


If you're in Austin before June 11, check out her retrospective Curioser at the Blanton. "The exhibition will then travel to the Cantor Center at Stanford University in Septemeber 2017, and to the ICA at VCU in Richmond, VA in April 2018."
posted by stevil at 11:13 AM on June 5, 2017


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