Mildred’s Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity): The Living Archive
MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Group Exhibition
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 (July 27–November 5, 2012), MoMA Studio: Common Senses is a multisensory environment at the intersection of education, design, and art that aims to foster our evolving relationships with nature, technology, and our everyday surroundings through community interactions and creative play. A series of drop-in activities, workshops, and ongoing projects for audiences of all ages integrates components such as light, nature, food, textiles, games, and technology. Artists, designers, and educators including Fritz Haeg, J. Morgan Puett of Mildred’s Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity), Karen Hewitt, Reggio Children, and others engage visitors in generative and sensory experiences from harvesting an edible garden and creating light-based scapes installations to engaging with an experimental school and playing with new and familiar toys and games.
Tintype images created by Corey Riddell & Natalie Wilkin + workstyles cabinet created in collaboration with the fellows of the Alchemist Shack session. Dimensions variable
Mixed Media
2012
Installation views at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York; for the exhibition,
Century of the Child: MoMA Studio: Common Senses. Curators: Pablo Helguera, Laura Beiles, Sarah Kennedy.
The Alchemist Shack II
Mildreds lane NY
Group Exhibition
The Alchemists Shack II, A three week creative fellowship at Mildreds Lane. The fellowship focused on the study of alchemical literature, ecology, the philosophical writings of Michel Foucault and the history of the occult, along with contributing to building works for the Alchemist Shack building. The group spent half of day working on the actual construction. The rest of the time was spent in-group research, visiting artist lectures, domestic worksyles and working on side projects geared toward preparation of the Museum of Modern Art exhibition.
The fellowship culminated in an exhibition onsite at Mildred’s Lane. It showcased the resulting work including Tintype Spirit photography, Work Styles Chart, and the Taxonomy of a ghost story. All of which was exhibited at MoMA in NYC as part of the Common Senses exhibition.
Dis Manibus
The research and works created during the Alchemist Shack II session were compiled into a printed broadsheet publication published by Cumbria University. Created in collaboration with Dr. Robert Williams, Dr Hilmar Schäfer, Bryan McGovern Wilson, Natalie Wilkin & Corey Riddell.
ISBN 978-1-907468-19-3
Year 2013
Edition 300
Pages double-sided broadsheet; 16 panels
Dimensions 125 x 355mm folded; 500 x 710mm unfolded.
This stunning broadside print proffers exactly what the title promises. On one side of folded panels the authors, English artist Professor Robert Williams and German sociologist Dr Hilmar Schäfer, describe the terms for a workshop they ran with young American artists at the Mildred’s Lane experimental summer school, Pennsylvania in 2013. That workshop explored the tropes, imagery and narrative structures that shape popular accounts of ghosts in a diverse range of media, with a special focus on British history. Their short essay is punctuated with an archive of extraordinary silverprint photographs that reveal ghosts in shot, be they real or not. The other side of the print unfolds into a large spider-diagram that charts the findings generated by the workshop as an extensive taxonomy.