In conjunction with the exhibition Elizabeth Price, the artist joins New York–based moving image artist Lucy Raven and curator Pavel Pyś for a discussion on the roles that archival research, image production, and appropriation of found footage play in their practices. The new exhibition was conceived in response to the architecture and history of the Walker’s gallery, and includes two new moving image works, FELT TIP and KOHL (both 2018), which together mark the artist’s first commission for a US museum.
Drawing from the Depths: On Elizabeth Price’s SLOW DANS Trilogy
As Elizabeth Price's solo exhibition comes to a close, exhibition curator Pavel Pyś reflects on the artist's recently completed trilogy, SLOW DANS, of which two parts—FELT TIP and KOHL—are on view at the Walker. Drawing on references to clothing design, coal mining, and new technologies, Price's trilogy examines the possibilities of life under advanced capitalism, especially in relation to issues of social class and gender.
Designing for Elizabeth Price: An Interview with Matthew Fenton
With this directive, Elizabeth Price engaged the British studio Spencer Fenton to create two custom typefaces for her SLOW DANS trilogy: "I want it to be modular, created using variations and arrangements of a single unit, shaped like a stitch or a seed, with hints of jacquard looms, pianola scrolls, and Tetris games." Here Matthew Fenton discusses collaborating with Price to create works on view in her Walker solo show.
In anticipation of Tipping Points, a March 14 program of films conceived in response to the Walker's Elizabeth Price exhibition, Film & Video Umbrella director Steven Bode considers themes of cultural change, vernacular language, fashion, and the archive in relation to works by Duncan Campbell, Bill Morrison, and Carey Young that will be presented as part of Tipping Points.
The Long Memory of Male Power: Elizabeth Price on FELT TIP and KOHL
For her first commission in a US museum, London-based artist Elizabeth Price created two new works—FELT TIP and KOHL (both 2018)—that each took as their departing point the architecture and history of the Walker's Perlman Gallery. In this interview, she speaks with Walker curator Pavel Pyś about her new works through the lens of the Walker's architecture, the sexualized symbolism of men's neckties, and the #MeToo movement.
