[dorkbotnyc-blabber] Free artwork & artist's talk @ The Whitney with Caitlin Berrigan

[caitlin berrigan]

Dear Dorkbot,

Some of you may remember me from my Dorkbot show-and-tell last spring about one of my pieces, Viral Confections. It is my pleasure to invite you to a talk & presentation of my work that I will be giving at the Whitney Museum on Friday, January 25th. I have made a new piece for the talk, which you can take home with you.

It would be wonderful to have your company!

With best wishes for a Happy New Year,
Caitlin

Friday, January 25th, 7pm (Free)
Lower Gallery
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street

Whitney Initial Public Offerings Presents
an artist talk by Caitlin Berrigan

in conversation with Boo Chapple, artist-in-residence at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
& Kathleen Forde, curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

A new commissioned multiple artwork, Hepatophagy, will be given away to all who come, featuring sculpted La Tène Chocolate.

From chocolates made in the shape of the protein structure of the hepatitis C virus to silicone objects cast from the negative space of a mouth, artist Caitlin Berrigan probes bodily systems and pathologies to create works that address the simultaneous medicalization and eroticization of the human form. The results, she says, are "quietly disturbing works of subtle humor and irony that speak to our violent and conflicted relationship to the body." http://www.membrana.us

About Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.): New Objects, New Audiences
Features artists who engage, challenge, or rethink modes of creation, circulation, and scale. Each artist in the series is commissioned to develop multiples that will be made available--free of charge--to the Whitney's public audiences.

Free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6-9pm. You may register by going to http://whitney.org & clicking on the link to the talk on the front page. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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http://www.membrana.us