Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Here/Not There: Jeremiah Barber

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

On Tuesday, July 17, at 7 pm, Jeremiah Barber performs Old Growth by sawing a log in the gallery and then rolling it out of the gallery, down the MCA stairs, and into the MCA Sculpture Garden where he will attempt to sit on the log. Afterwards, he will transport the log back into the gallery, where he will saw the log again, repeating the entire process until the log is completely dismantled. While sitting atop the log in the MCA Sculpture Garden, the artist can be viewed within the gallery from a video feed. Meant to be an open-ended aesthetic experience for the visitor, Barber's laborious yet meditative performance brings together the natural within an urban environment and the spiritual within a physical undertaking. He will repeat the performance on Thursday, July 19, and Saturday, July 21.