Artist Talk

Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 6:30 PM at the Portland Art Museum 

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The radical artist and creator of notMoMA Stephanie Syjuco is here from the Bay Area and is participating in two evenings of programming in conjunction with our current exhibit MARVELS. 

Stephanie Syjuco joins us for a talk as part of the installation of her work NotMoMA, the first social-practice artwork to enter the Museum’s permanent collection and currently on view in MARVELS. In her wider practice, Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles of collected cultural objects, cumulative archives, and temporary vending installations, often with an active public component that invites viewers to directly participate as producers or distributors. 

Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles of collected cultural objects, cumulative archives, and temporary vending installations, often with an active public component that invites viewers to directly participate as producers or distributors. Using collaborative co-creation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire. This has included starting a global collaborative project with crochet crafters to counterfeit high-end consumer goods, presenting parasitic art-counterfeiting events, and developing alternative vending economies. Her work was recently included in “New Photography: Being” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 2018) and “Public Knowledge,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2018).