April at the Tang features world premiere by David Greenberger, Tyson Rogers
Exhibiting artists MIZU, Theresa-Xuan Bui, Antonius-Tín Bui, and dancer Glenna Yu also to perform
Public invited to tours, talks, screenings, and art-making workshops for families
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (April 2, 2024) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College invites the public to its March programs, featuring tours, screenings, family programs, and two special performances How Vowels Endure Winter on April 12 and if our hands could hold the weight of promise on April 17.
How Vowels Endure Winter will be performed on Friday, April 12, at 7 pm. It is the world premiere performance of a series of monologues with piano created by David Greenberger and Tyson Rogers in response to work by the artist Joachim Schmid that occupies an entire wall in the Tang exhibition Studio/Archive. The new work features short tales about collecting, creating, organizing, and memory. The event is the inaugural commission and performance in the Adirondack Trust New Works Series at the Tang Museum.
On Wednesday, April 17, at 5 pm, if our hands could hold the weight of promise features Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in flesh exhibiting artists MIZU, Theresa-Xuan Bui, and Antonius-Tín Bui, as well as dancer Glenna Yu. They will activate the Tang elevator and atrium staircase with cello, improvisational movement, spoken word poetry, and audience interaction with traditional Vietnamese garments (áo dài). In this way, the audience will join the diasporic artists on a migration embodying the hesitations, expectations, and contemplations of returning home.
These performances are in addition to the Framing the Flesh feature film screenings, weekly Tang Guide tours, curator’s tours, family art-making workshops, and a conversation around The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, a groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist in the US.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit the Tang website at http://tang.skidmore.edu.
APRIL EVENTS
Thursday, April 4, 6 pm
Framing the Flesh: Eyes Without a Face (1960) & Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
This double feature of critically acclaimed and classic films is the second screening in the Framing the Flesh series, organized by Piper Ingels ’24, above, which explores our fascination with and revulsion to the fantasies of unconventional bodily alterations. The series is the capstone project of her 2023-24 Meg Reitman Jacobs ’63 Endowed Internship.
Sunday, April 7, 2 pm
Tang Guide Tour with Lynae Kovatch
Join us for a docent-led tour. Tang Guide Tours also on April 14, April 21, and April 28.
Thursday, April 11, noon
Curator's Talk on Hyde Cabinet #24: Boyhood.
Andrew Crews ’26 leads a talk about his curatorial project, which features a photograph by Anna Gaskell.
Thursday, April 11, 6 pm
Searching for America’s First Black Woman Novelist
Gregg Hecimovich (Harvard University and Furman University) will be in discussion with Skidmore professors Tammy Owens (American Studies) and Jamie Luis Parra (English). Hecimovich is the author of The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, a groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist in the US.
Friday, April 12, noon
Curator's Tour of Abject Anatomy
Helen Branch ’24 leads a tour of the exhibition she organized as part of her capstone project as the 2022-23 Carole Marchand Endowed Intern.
Friday, April 12, 7 pm
How Vowels Endure Winter
World premiere performance by artist David Greenberger and musician Tyson Rogers. The new commission of work for voice and piano is in response to artwork by Joachim Schmid on view in the exhibition Studio/Archive. This is the first in The Adirondack Trust New Works Series at the Tang Museum.
Saturday, April 13, 2 pm
Family Saturday: Rock Animals
A multigenerational art-viewing and art-making workshop inspired by Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves. For children 5 and older with an adult companion. Another Family Saturday will be April 27.
Wednesday, April 17, 4:30 pm
K-Pop Dance Performance!
Students in Visiting Artist-in-Residence Chia-Ying Kao’s Dance 317: K-Pop II class will perform as part of their semester’s final work.
Wednesday, April 17, 5 pm
if our hands could hold the weight of promise
Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in flesh artists MIZU, Theresa-Xuan Bui, and Antonius-Tín Bui, and dancer Glenna Yu perform.
Thursday, April 18, noon
Curator’s Tour of Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in flesh
Curatorial Assistant Ivy Vuong leads a tour of the latest elevator installation.
Thursday, April 18, 6 pm
Framing the Flesh: birth/rebirth (2023)
The third and final screening in the Framing the Flesh series, organized by Piper Ingels ’24, which explores our fascination with and revulsion to the fantasies of unconventional bodily alterations.
Friday, April 26, 8 pm
Tang Party 2024
The annual Tang Party celebrates student creativity with immersive and interactive installations and performances on the Tang grounds.
EXHIBITIONS
Abject Anatomy Photographs, prints, drawings, and paintings from the Tang collection in which the human body is transformed ask us to reflect on fears about our own bodily nonconformance and that of those around us. Through April 21.
Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in flesh This site-specific, collaborative meditation on three diasporic artists’ experiences melds the work of Antonius-Tín Bui, Theresa-Xuan Bui, and MIZU to engage all five senses with spoken word poetry, experimental cello, traditional Vietnamese áo dài (garments), Southeast Asian home goods, and Asian snacks.
Hyde Cabinet #24: Boyhood An early photograph by acclaimed artist Anna Gaskell serves as a catalyst for this student curatorial project about transitions and relationships in the lives of boys.
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour A tour-de-force, ten-screen video installation explores the life of Frederick Douglass.
Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves The Mexican-American artist Yvette Molina transforms the Tang mezzanine into a community space. The two-year project is now in its second iteration with work by Molina and the artists Mónica Palma and Ann Lewis.
Studio/Archive An ambitious selection of photographic works from the Tang collection by artists who span the globe.
About the Tang Teaching Museum
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of interdisciplinary exploration and learning. A cultural anchor of New York’s Capital Region, the Tang’s approach has become a model for college and university art museums across the country—with exhibition programs that bring together visual and performing arts with interdisciplinary ideas from history, economics, biology, dance, and physics, to name just a few. The Tang has one of the most rigorous faculty-engagement initiatives in the nation, and a robust publication and touring exhibition program that extends the museum’s reach far beyond its walls. The Tang Teaching Museum’s award-winning building, designed by architect Antoine Predock, serves as a visual metaphor for the convergence of art and ideas. The Museum is open to the public on Thursday from noon to 9 pm and Friday through Sunday from noon to 5 pm. https://tang.skidmore.edu
Photo: Installation view, Studio/Archive, 2024, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, photo by Mindy McDaniel
