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Installed by Art Domantay Artworks LLC and More Specialized Transport Inc. ARTIST TALK: TARYN SIMON. Commissioned by Park Avenue Armory and Artangel. An Occupation of Loss is supported in part by the VIA Art Fund, Agnes Gund, and by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Park Avenue Armory Conservancy is a not-for-profit ...
Sep 15, 2016 · Simon proclaimed when we met up to chat in a small room somewhere in the bowels of the armory. The artist, dark-haired, pretty, and palpably dazed, was dressed like a sleek ’70s schoolteacher on ...
- Julia Felsenthal
Apr 13, 2017 · The groundbreaking artist Taryn Simon blends sculpture, sound, architecture and performance in “An Occupation of Loss,” her provocative piece exploring the anatomy of grief.
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Taryn Simon. An Occupation of Loss, 2016. In An Occupation of Loss, professional mourners simultaneously broadcast their lamentations, enacting rituals of grief. Their sonic mourning is performed in recitations that include northern Albanian laments, which seek to excavate “uncried words”; Wayuu laments, which safeguard the soul’s passage ...
Sep 21, 2016 · Fluorescent bands of light gave the whole space the feel of an abandoned warehouse. "An Occupation of Loss" by Taryn Simon. Naho Kubota / Courtesy Park Avenue Armory. The mourners emerged and ...
- Chloe Schama
Sep 20, 2016 · Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning. By Emily Witt. September 20, 2016. “An Occupation of Loss,” Taryn Simon’s performance piece at the Park Avenue Armory, draws on themes of government ...
Oct 14, 2022 · An Occupation of Loss takes place in subterranean space in Islington Green, which took four years to find, and will open to the public for the first time on the evening of 17 April. While architectural photography is under tight embargo until the first performance is done, Simon has revealed that the venue will be a concrete dodecagon with ...
