A coalition of artists, academics, and organizers have created a new kind of exhibition, just in time for the midterms.
“So, have you heard about Eric and Hank making mischief at the museum?” Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, asks me on a recent afternoon over Zoom. She’s talking about the artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman , a duo spearheading a new kind of residency at the institution, which also happens to be a polling site.
But a traditional cable news network this is not. As Thomas, Gottesman, and Pasternak describe it, the “For Freedoms News” residency is a way for artists to be inserted into civic conversations concerning politics and unity. Pasternak says that, although this is an unorthodox approach to a residency, or even a performance art program for that matter, she was all in once For Freedoms brought the idea across her desk. “I said to Hank and Eric, if they’re gonna do anything really naughty, they shouldn’t tell the team and they should just go ahead and do it,” she says with a laugh.
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