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July 2, 2013 | Artists, Events & Programs

Embodying the Archive: Xaviera Simmons on Archive as Impetus (Not on View)

Posted by Jordan Carter, 12-Month Fluxus Collection Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints Hanna Exel, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

An Archive as Impetus performance in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Photograph courtesy of Xaviera Simmons)

An Archive as Impetus (Not on View) performance in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Photograph by Martin Seck

Plenty of people think of museums, libraries, and archives as stagnant and apolitical places; sites where histories are not created, but simply preserved. In her performance Archive as Impetus (Not on View)—presented several times per week during the month of June as part of MoMA’s Artists Experiment initiative—artist Xaviera Simmons asked viewers to reconsider the role of the museum.

June 20, 2013 | Artists, Events & Programs

Living History: Xaviera Simmons and Archive as Impetus

Posted by Sheetal Prajapati, Associate Educator, Public Programs

An Archive as Impetus performance in MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. Photograph courtesy of Xaviera Simmons

What do women artists want?

This question is announced through a microphone, repeated—carrying out into MoMA’s Garden Lobby and on to the second-floor Marron Atrium as visitors stop, turn, and listen.

January 15, 2013 | Events & Programs

Artists as Houseguests: Artists Experiment at MoMA

Posted by Pablo Helguera, Director of Adult and Academic Programs, Department of Education

You may see a bearded man in an impeccable, salmon-colored suit sitting at the information desk of the Museum—you can ask him anything about the meaning of poetry.

June 28, 2010 | MoMA PS1

Xaviera Simmons: Image Builder

Posted by Christopher Y. Lew, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1

In this video, mixed-media artist Xaviera Simmons talks about her work and her striking new photo installation, Superunknown (Alive In The), currently on view in Greater New York, MoMA PS1‘s quinquennial showcase of works made in the past five years by artists and collectives living and working in the metropolitan New York area.