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The Shed Announces First Seven Commissions of 2019 Inaugural Season Proposals from Early-Career NYC Artists in All Disciplines
NEW YORK, March 6, 2018—The Shed’s Artistic Director and CEO Alex Poots today unveiled the first group of commissions for the 2019 inaugural season in its future home on Manhattan's west side, and provided major updates about the organization’s leadership, program, and capital campaign. New York City’s first arts center dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting new work across the performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture, The Shed will open to the public in spring 2019 with commissioned programs filling its iconic and expansive multi-use hall, two floors of column-free galleries, and versatile and intimate theater.
“The original idea for The Shed was relatively simple: provide a place for artists working in all disciplines to make and present work for audiences from all walks of life,” said Poots. “Our opening programs begin to show how these artists, art forms, and audiences can thrive together under one roof.”
The programs of The Shed’s inaugural season reflect the organization’s mission to nurture artistic invention across the widest range of disciplines, frequently informed by cutting-edge technologies. They include: a new live production celebrating the unrivaled impact of African American music on art and popular culture over the past 100 years, conceived by acclaimed
filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen, developed and produced with music industry legend Quincy Jones, respected NYU Professor Maureen Mahon, and preeminent hip-hop producer Dion ‘No I.D.’ Wilson; a live performance/exhibition pairing works by master painter Gerhard Richter with a new composition by Steve Reich and an extant composition by Arvo Pärt; a reinvention of Euripides’ Helen by poet Anne Carson, starring Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming; an original live production co-conceived by Chen Shi-Zheng and Kung Fu Panda screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, with songs by Sia and choreography by Akram Khan; expansive exhibitions devoted to extant and newly commissioned work by trailblazing artists Trisha Donnelly and Agnes Denes; and an unprecedented opportunity for New York City-based, early-career artists of all disciplines to develop and showcase their work throughout The Shed’s spaces via an Open Call commissioning program.
An overview of the first group of 2019 commissions follows (dates to be announced):
Soundtrack of America
Soundtrack of America celebrates the unrivaled impact of African American music on art and popular culture over the past 100 years. Having begun with the concept of a “family tree” of influential musicians and composers, this commission culminates in a series of concerts by leading musicians performing its “branches,” tracing African American music's global impact from its roots in the 17th century to present-day hip-hop, R&B, jazz, and pop. Conceived by Oscar-winning filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen (film: 12 Years a Slave, Hunger; visual art: 1999 Turner Prize), Soundtrack of America is being developed and programmed in partnership with 27-time Grammy Award-winner Quincy Jones (chief music advisor), respected NYU professor Maureen Mahon, and preeminent hip-hop producer Dion ‘No I.D.’ Wilson (Kanye West, Alessia Cara, Jay-Z). The creative team is supported by advisors Regina N. Bradley, Nelson George, Alisha Lola Jones, Hamza Walker, and Matthew D. Morrison. (The McCourt)
Reich Richter Pärt
Reich Richter Pärt plumbs the depths of a shared language between painting and music, exploring how each medium might affect our sensory experience of the other. The Shed’s Gallery I will be divided into two spaces: one will house a collaboration between Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter, the other between Richter and Arvo Pärt, each expanding on a shared interest in the relationship between art and music. The Reich Richter partnership, based on the notion of seriality, expands on both Richter's formula for his “Patterns” series, which divides, mirrors, and repeats a single painting, and on Reich’s systematic compositions from the 1960s and ’70s re-thought to incorporate Richter’s structure. Together, Reich’s music and Richter’s paintings become a unified work with a shared structure between art and music, creating an immersive experience in the gallery. The world premiere of Reich’s newly commissioned score will be performed by musicians from the Ensemble Signal (Brad Lubman, Conductor), the International Contemporary Ensemble, and AXIOM (Jeffrey Milarsky,
Conductor). Pairing Richter paintings with music is a concept first developed by Alex Poots and Hans Ulrich Obrist for the 2015 Manchester International Festival, for which Pärt was commissioned to compose a choral piece, Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima, in response to new paintings by Richter. Vox Clamantis will perform this piece at The Shed in the other half of the gallery. As an extension of this exhibition, Richter, with the filmmaker Corinna Belz, will make a film for his collaboration with Reich. The film will grow out of the algorithmic processing of Richter’s abstract paintings. (Gallery I)
Trisha Donnelly
Trisha Donnelly (b. 1974, San Francisco), lives and works in New York.(Gallery II)
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
A melologue (partly spoken, partly sung) performance piece based on the ancient Greek tragedy of Helen by Euripides, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is specially commissioned from the poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson(Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Nox and Float), written for actor Ben Whishaw (film: Bright Star, The Lobster, Skyfall; Broadway: The Crucible), with soprano Renée Fleming (numerous roles at major opera houses; concert performances around the world and on television; Broadway: Carousel, Living on Love; film soundtracks: The Lord of
the Rings, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). The production will be staged by theater and opera director Katie Mitchell (National Theatre’s The Seagull, Aix-en-Provence Festival’s Written on Skin, Royal Court Theatre’s Anatomy of a Suicide) with music by composer Paul Clark (co-founder of Clod Ensemble, Here All Night at Gare St. Lazare’s Beckett in London Festival). (Theater)
Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise (working title)
An original live production co-conceived by Chen Shi-Zheng (Peony Pavilion at Lincoln Center Festival; Monkey: Journey to the West at Manchester International Festival) and screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (Kung Fu Panda I–III), Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise (working title) is about a Chinese sect in Flushing, Queens that possesses the magical power to extend human life. Written by Aibel and Berger and directed by Chen, Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise features songs by singer-songwriter Sia (1000 Forms of Fear, This is Acting), movement and aerial choreography by Akram Khan (English National Ballet’s Giselle, Royal National Theatre’s in-i), and production design and costumes by Tim Yip (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). (The McCourt)
Agnes Denes
Agnes Denes (b. 1931, Budapest) gained international attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a leading figure in conceptual and environmental/ecological art. A pioneer of several art movements, she is difficult to categorize and employs a
broad spectrum of media to explore science, philosophy, linguistics, and the human condition in an artistic practice that weds aesthetics to social engagement. Denes has participated in more than 600 exhibitions in galleries, museums, and the public realm throughout the world and her work is in the collections of major public and private institutions. Her survey exhibition at The Shed will include major new commissions and will be her largest show in New York City to date, filling both of The Shed’s galleries. (Gallery I & II)
Further details about these programs and the remaining commissions for the 2019 inaugural season will be announced later this year, as well as on-sale dates for tickets.
Open Call: A Showcase for Local Emerging Artists
The Shed is launching Open Call, a large-scale commissioning program for early-career artists from all disciplines who live or work in New York City. Active throughout the year across all of The Shed’s exhibition and performance spaces, Open Call will provide a valuable and prominent platform to showcase the best of the city’s creative dynamism in one of its major cultural institutions.
“Nurturing artists at the start of their careers is as important to The Shed’s mission as presenting new work by established artists; crucially, all Open Call exhibitions and performances will be free and open to the public,” said Emma Enderby, curator at The Shed. “The panelists we are enlisting for the review process represent a diversity of voices within various fields and we likewise encourage artist proposals from all artistic disciplines.”
Beginning March 7, artists in New York City who are at least 18 years old are invited to submit a project proposal for Open Call online at theshed.org. Following a panel review by accomplished artists in relevant disciplines, The Shed will announce the first Open Call commissions later this year. The selected artists (or collectives) will receive a commissioning fee and the full support of The Shed to realize their projects.
The McCourt
In recognition of a $45 million gift from Shed board member Frank H. McCourt, Jr., and his family, the building’s largest and most iconic space—its 17,000-square-foot multi-use hall—will be named The McCourt. Able to accommodate large-scale performances, installations, and events for audiences ranging from 1,250 seated to 3,000 standing (when combined
with space in the adjoining galleries of the base building), it is formed by deploying an 8-million-pound movable shell over the building’s adjoining plaza. The McCourt can be combined with adjacent gallery space to create a nearly 30,000-square-foot (2,715 m²) contiguous space (for reference, Grand Central Terminal’s main concourse is 33,000 square feet). Thirty-foothigh operable doors on two sides allow The McCourt to also function as an open-air pavilion. The McCourt will undoubtedly become known as one of the world’s most unique, flexible, and captivating cultural spaces.
“I am a strong believer in the mission of The Shed and its potential to celebrate both innovation and community in the artistic world and beyond,” said McCourt. “I am confident we will be back at this already iconic venue witnessing change-making commissions for years to come.”
The Chairman of The Shed’s Board of Directors Daniel L. Doctoroff said, “Including this generous gift from Frank McCourt and a $75 million leadership gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced last year, we have raised $453 million toward our $550 million capital campaign. We are well on our way to creating America’s largest cultural startup and realizing our dynamic vision for a cultural institution of and for the 21st century.”
A Prelude to The Shed
A Prelude to The Shed is a free multi-arts event that will take place from May 1 to 13, 2018, in a temporary structure designed by Kunlé Adeyemi on an undeveloped lot near The Shed’s future home. Featuring new work by choreographer William Forsythe, Tino Sehgal's This variation, concerts by ABRA, Arca, and Azealia Banks, dance battles by FlexNYC, an
experimental school by artist Asad Raza, and a series of panels organized by Dorothea von Hantelmann.
Admission to A Prelude to The Shed is free, via advanced reservations that can be made at theshed.org beginning in April, or in-person at the Prelude site in May.
About the Building
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group, The Shed is an innovative 200,000-square-foot (18,500 m²) structure that can physically transform to support artists’ most ambitious ideas. The Shed’s eight-level base building includes two expansive, column-free galleries totaling 25,000 square feet of museum-quality space; a 500-seat
theater that can be subdivided into even more intimate spaces; event and rehearsal space; and a creative lab. A movable outer shell can double the building’s footprint when deployed over the adjoining plaza to create a 17,000-square-foot light-, sound-, and temperature-controlled space, named The McCourt, for large-scale performances, installations, and events for audiences ranging from 1,250 seated to 3,000 standing (when combined with space in the two adjoining galleries of the base building). When spaceis not needed, the movable shell can nest over the base building, opening up the plaza for outdoor use and programming.
About The Shed
Opening in spring 2019 where the High Line meets Hudson Yards on Manhattan's west side, The Shed will be the first arts center dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting all types of performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture. From hip hop to classical music, painting and sculpture to literature, film to theater and dance, The Shed will bring
together leading artists from all disciplines under one roof. The building—an innovative 200,000-square-foot structure designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group—is designed to physically transform to support artists' most ambitious ideas. Committed to nurturing artistic invention, The Shed, led by Artistic Director and CEO Alex Poots, will work with artists from a broad range of genres and backgrounds, along with innovative thinkers from across the sciences and humanities, to advance culture in the 21st century
