WPKN Archives: Interview with artist Peter Liversidge and Richard Klein, Director of Exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

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Radio Something with Valerie Richardson

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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
5:06PM to 6:10PM

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1 hour, 4 minutes

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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016 9:11PM

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Episode: Interview with artist Peter Liversidge and Richard Klein, Director of Exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

I greatly enjoyed this conversation with Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and conceptual artist Peter Liversidge, who is visiting from the UK as he realizes several projects at the Aldrich Museum. Here's a description of his work from the Aldrich's website:

For the past decade, Peter Liversidge’s practice has focused on the creation of conceptually based proposals that describe artworks that might—or might not—be realized. Typed on an Olivetti manual typewriter, these proposals—complete with typographical errors and hand annotations—describe ideas from the practical to the far-fetched. Liversidge wrote sixty proposals for The Aldrich (all of the typescripts are included in the exhibition), and twenty-three have been chosen for realization, guided by the concept of connecting the interior of The Aldrich Museum with both the surrounding landscape and the community.

These include working with the employees of Ridgefield Hardware, the town’s hardware store, to write a song about the store that they will publically perform;* ring a cannonball into the Museum’s wall in reference to the action during the Revolutionary War that led to a British cannonball being embedded in the wall of the Keeler Tavern, Ridgefield’s Colonial-era historical site; and the fabrication of nine shallow, circular aluminum pans whose relative sizes correspond to the nine largest lakes in Connecticut, with the pans being subsequently filled with water from the specific lakes.

Show: Radio Something with Valerie Richardson

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