DAILY TOUS LES JOURS / STOICISM / YEARS OF GREEN BOX / NOLA / AT WORK: WAYNE COYNE SUMMER CONTEMPORARY ARTS, PERFORMANCE, AND THOUGHT DAILY TOUS LES JOURS Museum of Possibilities AL VAR THE FRENCH 75 from Arnaud’s in New Orleans In a shaker filled with ice, briefly shake 1½ ounces of cognac, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and a ¼ teaspoon of simple syrup. Gently pour this into a chilled tulip glass, top with champagne and a lemon twist. SUMMER O N T HE DA ILY FRENCH IMMERSION ON THE FRONT RANGE IT SEEMS UNLIKELY that a Quebecois design group and a small-town American art festival would want much to do with each other. But the artists known as Daily tous les jours and the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, found out four years ago that they were exactly what the other needed. BY RYAN STEADMAN DAILY TOUS LES JOURS The Swings (2014) ARTDESK 01 n 2010, artists Mouna An- spaces, and I wanted to see how technol- draos and Melissa Mongiat ogy could be used in a way to connect co-founded the Montre- people.” al–based studio group with The Swings, an interactive artwork CONSIDERING TECHNOLOGY Ian odd French and English name comprised of ten light-and-sound pro- which translates to “daily everyday.” ducing swings—which premiered at AS A vehicle FOR SOCIAL Just a year before, Green Box Arts the Green Box Arts Festival in 2014— Festival began in the Rocky Moun- achieves exactly that. The swings are a change IS AN IMPORTANT The Swings (2014) tains with an eye toward interna- joyful experience out of synchronicity, Photograph by Cushy Creative tionally relevant installation art. but when people use them precisely in PART OF OUR APPROACH. Over the last eight years, Daily tous tandem, their rhythms create melodies les jours has honed its specialty act, through technology and cooperation, one that mirrors its founders’ artistic almost as if by magic. The experience strengths. Andraos’s focus has always is transcendent. been on using cutting-edge technology “The idea was to work between arts with help from scientist and biology for social change, while Mongiat, who and science to explore the concept of professor Luc-Alain Giraldeau and holds a master's degree in narrative envi- cooperation,” Andraos says. “It’s a game musician Radwan Ghazi-Moumneh. ronments, brings knowledge of partici- where, from the start, you need to adjust The piece was an unexpected hit in patory design to the interactive studio. to the actions of others.” Montreal’s popular entertainment “Considering technology as a vehicle The artwork came out of a similar district, Quartier des spectacles. for social change is an important part of piece from 2011 installed in Montreal, Andraos and Mongiat had already our approach,” Andraos says. “[Mongiat] 21 Balançoires (21 Swings). Daily tous les created many interactive games using was looking at participation in public jours created the swing installation light and sound technology, but they TheCaption Swings (2014) Giant Sing Along (2011) Photograph courtesy of Daily tous les jour Photograph by Steve Dietz 02 ARTDESK SUMMER Score (2018) Courtesy of Daily tous les jours were oored by the popularity of 21 National Forest and Green Moun- American Ballet Theatre to outdoor Balançoires. For several years, the piece tain Falls, Colorado. installation works by well-known became a local springtime landmark. “It is a part of our mission to artists such as Spencer Finch and Andraos and Mongiat have pro- bring world-class art to our com- Tomás Saraceno. duced others works that embrace munity,” Keigwin says, “and [The Andraos and Mongiat chalk the audience participation, including Bloc Swings] was particularly interesting work’s popularity up to the rela- Jam, a building that produces music because it was so interactive and tionships that it creates. and colored lights at the command of engages the community in a play- “Wherever it goes, the project a passerby's cell phone directive. Giant ful and lighthearted way.” sparks connections and conversa- Sing Along is a eld of microphones The Swings was such a big hit tions between people of all ages Mesa Musical Shadows (2016) that inspires auto-tuned singalongs; that the installation will be back and backgrounds,” Mongiat says. Photograph by David Drury Mesa Musical Shadows is an interactive by popular demand for the 2018 “At the Green Box Festival, we were courtyard piece in which participants’ festival. Celebrating its tenth surprised by how the swings also shadows trigger a variety of singing anniversary (see page 12 for more connected participants to their en- voices from dierent oor tiles. on the rst ten years), Green Box vironment, the astounding moun- Larry Keigwin, Christian Keesee, has since hosted a diverse and elite tains, taking the experience to a and Blake Keesee co-founded the group of arts productions, from magical, meditative level.” Green Box Arts Festival in 2009, hoping to “provide artists and visi- tors with an opportunity to nurture Daily tous les jours will participate in an ArtDesk Conversation on Saturday, June 30, 2018, the creative process and explore at the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. The Swings will be free and new artistic directions” within the open to the public from Thursday, June 28 to Saturday, September 22, 2018. dramatic natural setting of the Pike greenboxarts.org dailytouslesjours.com Museum of Possibilities (2010) Photograph by Varial ARTDESK 03 NECESSITIES SUMMER 2018 NecessitiesWHAT TO SEE, WHAT TO READ, AND WHAT’S HAPPEN NG WHERE KING SIZE ON VIEW NOW—The King's Mouth has taken over a portion of FLOAT bar + cafe at Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Conceptualized and constructed by Wayne Coyne—better known as the lead singer for The Flaming Lips—the giant metallic sculpture of a king sits with a mouth agape, inviting visitors to crawl inside and immerse themselves in a fantastical light and music show. (Please see page 24 for Coyne’s artdesk.) WAYNE COYNE Meow Wolf’s inaugural permanent installation, House of Eternal Kings Head (2018) Return, and the adjoining FLOAT bar + cafe are located at 1352 Ru­ na Photograph by Kate Russell, courtesy of Meow Wolf Circle in Santa Fe. Open daily, except Tuesdays. meowwolf.com 04 ARTDESK SUMMER THE EXPERIENCE is building and constantly altering a series AHHA / Tulsa, Oklahoma of explorable caves, creating an exuberant three-dimensional archive of black life in INSTALLATION South Central Los Angeles. As with the artist’s Tulsa is getting its own immersive art recent Hieroglyph Project, with Egyptian-like environment with THE EXPERIENCE, “a large- hieroglyphics that visitors could carve into scale, fully immersive art installation that invites blank walls, the sculptural caverns grandly participants to explore a fantastical, multimedia commemorate local stories and history. environment through sight, sound, movement, Through September 3. moca.org and touch,” on the second oor of the Hardesty Arts Center. The artists behind the multimedia HEAVENLY BODIES: Fashion and the art adventure are sculptor and movie-prop Catholic Imagination maker David Reed James, installation artist Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York, Laurie Keeley, lmmaker Jeremy Lamberton, New York drawing and installation artist JP Morrison Lans, MEL CHIN: All Over the Place and painter and musician Daniel Sutli . Queens Museum / Queens, New York EXHIBITION Opens June 30. ahhatulsa.org The mitres, the silk stoles, the pope’s red SURVEY shoes—the Catholic Church has style. And that In preparation for this exhibition, the people pomp has, in turn, inuenced haute couture. of Flint, Michigan—where the water has been This exhibition is spread across two of the and Space movement, Mary Corse is nally contaminated with lead since 2014—were Met’s Manhattan branches, the main museum getting her due. This rst solo museum survey asked to send more than 90,000 water on Fih Avenue and the medieval gardens showcases the breadth of her career going back bottles to a textile manufacturer. Those and Gothic chapels of the Cloisters, uptown. to the 1960s, when she started experimenting bottles were then made into textiles for It contrasts medieval art with high fashion, with the qualities of light through reecting rain and swim gear, which became one of such as the gilt radiance of a Byzantine and refracting materials like plexiglass, several new interventions by Mel Chin in this processional cross with the ornamentation on ceramic tiles, and metallic akes. Visitors to exhibition that considers the environment a 1990s Versace evening dress, and features the Whitney may want to complement this and our socioeconomic systems. This survey, loans of papal robes and accessories, some on exhibition with a brief train ride up to Beacon, encompassing four decades of Chin’s career, view for the rst time outside the Vatican. New York, where Dia: Beacon opened a focused includes an augmented-reality installation in Through October 8. metmuseum.org gallery on her paintings in May. Times Square, which simulates a ood around Through November 25. whitney.org the skeletal hull of a shipwreck, and a sound piece created from eld recordings on the I WAS RAISED ON THE INTERNET ISABELLE DE BORCHGRAVE: New York subway. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / Fashioning Art from Paper Through August 12. queensmuseum.org Chicago, Illinois Oklahoma City Museum of Art / Oklahoma City, Oklahoma SCULPTURE With paper and paint, Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave sculpts tributes to historical fashion. This survey is the rst to unite her four main collections: Papiers à la Mode, which contrasts HAPPENINGS the ru s of Elizabeth I with the simple elegance NEW AND NOW IN ART & DESIGN | BY ALLISON MEIER of Coco Chanel; the World of Mariano Fortuny, on twentieth-century Venice; Splendor of the Medici, on the ceremonial garb of Florence; and Les Ballets Russes, on the ballet company’s costume JASON MORAN EXHIBITION designs.