The Ungovernables

New Museum Triennial

The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US.

The exhibition title, “The Ungovernables,” takes its inspiration from the concept of “ungovernability” and its transformation from a pejorative term used to describe unruly “natives” to a strategy of civil disobedience and self-determination. “The Ungovernables” is meant to suggest both anarchic and organized resistance and a dark humor about the limitations and potentials of this generation. “The Ungovernables” is an exhibition about the urgencies of a generation who came of age after the independence and revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Through both materials and form, works included in “The Ungovernables” explore impermanence and an engagement with the present and future.

In the sculpture of Adrián Villar Rojas, monumentality is juxtaposed with transience. Rendered in clay, the works depend on cracks on their surfaces—the inevitable failure of the object, of meaning, and the guaranteed transformation of all ideas and objects back to dust. But it is dust that is then repurposed, reimagined, and re-formed.

When Danh Võ learned that the Statue of Liberty is simply a steel armature covered by a copper skin the thickness of two pennies, he researched the hammering process that gave her shape, then employed craftsmen to replicate the statue’s skin for his work WE THE PEOPLE.

For more information about the Triennial, click here.

Casual dinner for those who wish to continue the evening can be organized after the show.

ANDREYA'S ASSISTANT

I am green and terribly cute!
Just look for me in Andreya's hands.

You cannot miss me!

Andreya and I will be waiting inside the lobby, by the admission desks.  The New Museum is free on Thursdays from 7:00 to 9:00pm.

We will meet again at 8:30 at the same meeting point.