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J. Morgan Puett is an artist/designer who consistently negotiates the intersection of history, sociology, economics, architectural practices and the fashion system. Recent projects include Cottage Industry (Spoleto, 2002, Charleston, S.C.), a complex and multi-layered event that remade a residential structure into a trans-historical textile and clothing manufactory/museum. Grafter's Shack (Wave Hill, 2002, NYC) was a meditation on the interdisciplinary nexus of grafting in biology, sociology, and autobiography. These and other projects and collaborations such as RN: The Past, Present and Future of the Nurse's Uniform (2004 Philadelphia) with Mark Dion and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, are part of ongoing methods to re-think and re-imagine the space of relations in a public sphere. spurse is an international collective with no (fixed) content or membership. Much of spurse's recent works involve a rethinking of ideas of public and public space. Recent works include: Sans Terre: a temporary research institute for the investigation of urbanization (Mass MoCA, 2004), After Nature: Sustaining What (Portland ICA, 2004). Composer David Lang is a founder and artistic director of New York's legendary music organization Bang on a Can. His work for amplified orchestra, The Passing Measures, was used by J. Morgan Puett in her piece Cottage Industry at the Spoleto Festival in 2002. The recording of The Passing Measures on the Cantaloupe label, was New Yorker magazine's classical recording of the year 2001. Julie Courtney is an independent curator who has gained a reputation for organizing installations outside the traditional museum or gallery space. Her current projects include Pandemonium with Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller at Eastern State Penitentiary and meta/Metasequoia with John McQueen and Margo Mensing for Morris Arboretum. From 1998-2001, Courtney curated Points of Departure: Art on the Line, a series of eight artworks in commuter rail train stations. In 1995, she co-curated Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject, fourteen site-specific projects for Eastern State. |