Ensemble 10099
2023
Folding table borrowed from the Whitney Independent Study Program at 100 Lafayette Street, folding table borrowed from the Whitney Museum of American Art at 99 Gansevoort Street, both returned after exhibition.
Presented in No Necessary Correspondence, the Whitney ISP Studio Program Exhibition at 100 Lafayette Street co-organized by the participating artists.
In city planning contexts folding tables are a common platform used for engagement by governing institutions seeking community input and by organizing efforts to address structural inequities. Ensemble 10099 engages this dialectic relationship by bringing together two folding tables from organizations in productive tension with one another. Historically, the Whitney Museum’s continued efforts to close its Independent Study Program (ISP) have failed and instead pushed it into creative modes of survival (inlcuding several changes of locale) that have ultimately reinforced its critical approach to cultural production. Ensemble 10099 served as a key exercise in representing abstract and historic institutional relations by way of discrete acts of facilitated participation.
Installation photographs by Sim Chi Yin.