untitled 2011 (t-shirt, no t-shirt)
February 9, 2024
- Past
- Performance
For his exhibition A LOT OF PEOPLE, Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thai, b. 1961) stages five interactive artworks as a series of plays. In untitled 2011 (t-shirt, no t-shirt), visitors can choose a slogan—from a list selected by Tiravanija for this exhibition—for performers to silkscreen onto provided cotton T-shirts that can be taken home. First presented at Gavin Brown’s enterprise in 2011, this work makes visible a collaborative assembly line, in which the products are disseminated into the world in real time. As artist and frequent collaborator Karl Holmqvist has remarked, the T-shirt texts are “formulated so as to be neither poetic nor quite political, but somehow both.”
Performers
Dylan Kim
Ming Lin
Sidian Liu
Anna-Ting Möller
Amadeo Morelos Favela
Paul Rho
Albert Samreth
Samuel Sunghyun Kim