NeueHouse Presents: On Aesthetics and Politics with Tomashi Jackson and Corinne Erni - 9/18/19

NeueHouse Madison Square

September 18th, 2019

 

NeueHouse hosted a conversation with artist Tomashi Jackson and Parrish Art Museum Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects Corinne Erni about Platform: Tomashi Jackson, the artist’s site-specific exhibition at the Museum in Water Mill (July 12^th - October 25^th, 2020). Working across painting, video, textiles, and sculpture, Jackson examines the relationship between the aesthetic and the political. She is particularly interested in the movements and migrations of groups of people; and how boundary lines are drawn, maintained, and subverted. Erni and Jackson have been in conversation for the past year about Platform. For this multi-disciplinary project, Jackson will engage with local communities and research the region’s history on racial segregation as a vehicle to juxtapose the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End with current socio-economic tensions.