Footnote:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held July 5, 2014-January 4, 2015 at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Artists: Suzanne Bocanegra, Regina Bogat, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, André Cadere, Sarah Cain, Karin Davie, Taylor Davis, David Dupuis, Tony Feher, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, Sol Lewitt, Chris Martin, Gabriel Orozco, Bruce Pearson, Ciara Phillips, Kay Rosen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Fred Tomaselli, Johannes Vanderbeek, Ruth Vollmer, Stanley Whitney, Christopher Wool
Description:
A composer and a curator had a conversation about how composers work, and how this relates to art making. This conversation was the inspiration for 'I was a double', an exhibition that brings together a group of artists that invent rules and then follow them; whether written or not, each artist makes a proposal to herself or himself that becomes realized in the physical artwork. Curators David Lang and Ian Berry asked the artists in 'I was a double' for a sentence describing their rule making. David Lang composed music for each artwork based on the artists' statements, making his score out of theirs. This book features a conversation between the curators along with an extensive selection of photographs documenting the installation, artworks, and Lang's musical scores