Slip at Mass MOCA

New commission for the inauguration of the new Robert W. Wilson Building of Mass MoCA, opened May 2017.

'Slip', a 100-foot wall paintingwas produced for this event.

At once poetic and darkly comedic, 'Slip' uses graphic notation to imagine the trajectory of a body in mortal peril as it slips on a banana peel. Moving from very small to very large type along an upward curve before suddenly crashing downward, 'Slip' unfolds across the entry hall to MASS MoCA’s newly renovated B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building. The work calls on the history of graphic notation, physical comedy, and concrete poetry to create a visual representation of a brief moment across both space and time. Situated just outside of the new galleries devoted to the musical instruments of Gunnar Schonbeck and works by experimental musician and artist Laurie Anderson, 'Slip' conflates visual art and musical performance — cornerstones of MASS MoCA’s program — at a grand architectural scale.

'Slip' developed out of "Score" 2015, which was shown at Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, 2016; and Hamburger Kunstverein 2017.