The installation Museumn-Art-Community is populated by marionettes. These figures, stand-ins for the art community reside on crates stencilled with color-coded texts associated with art world actors (artists, curators, collectors, &c.), institutions (museum, gallery, exhibition), actions (dialogue, mediate, agency), and language stencilled onto functioning art crates (keep dry, with care, up).
A catalyst for this installation is a project by Marcel Broodthaers, "Section XIXe siécle of the Musée d’art Moderne, Départment of Eagles” a portion of which was an installation comprised of exhibition crates, which he activated by declaring the room they were presented in a museum, organizing an opening, and populating the installation with museum directors and curators.
"Museum-Art-Community” engages various segments of the the art world, including the labor of various actors—an aspect that is implicit in Broodthaers’ installation, but usually left out of critical discussion.
—Dan Mills
