Free Talk Free Art @ The Whitney with Caitlin Berrigan

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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

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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