Meta-Monumental Garage Sale @ MoMA

I want to go so bad:



Martha Rosler

Meta-Monumental Garage Sale November 17–30, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
MoMA.org/garagesale

"New York-based artist Martha Rosler presents her Meta-Monumental Garage Sale, a large-scale version of the classic American garage sale, at The Museum of Modern Art. Museum visitors will be able to browse and buy second-hand goods organized, displayed, and sold by the artist.

Meta-Monumental Garage Sale transforms the Museum's Marron Atrium into an informal cash economy—a space for the exchange of goods, narratives, and ideas—as it implicates visitors in face-to-face transactions. Rosler oversees the sale daily and engages with visitors. A slide show and an audio meditation on the role of commodities in everyday life, both artifacts from the work's early performances, are included in this newest installation. Some items accumulated during previous versions of the work are also for sale or on display, as traces from the project's past locales. Photographs of visitors at earlier sales are displayed alongside photographs (taken by a professional wedding photographer) of MoMA visitors posing with their new acquisitions.

The current sale brings together a large treasure trove of material from Rosler herself, but also from friends and family, local Brooklyn art communities, and MoMA staff.

Organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, and Ana Janevski, Associate Curator, with Jill A. Samuels, Performance Producer, Department of Media and Performance Art. The exhibition is supported in part by The Modern Women's Fund".  

(all info copied from MoMA's press release, I take no credit for the writing, just want to spread the word about this performance/project)