Views From Phillips after 5

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Experiment Station

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A visitor interacts with artist Dan Steinhilber’s Interface artworks. Photo: Instagram/heidinotklum

Last week’s All That Jazz Phillips after 5 was action-packed! Here are some of our favorite visitor photos from the activities all over the museum, including craft cocktails, tours, jazz from The Pete Muldoon Sextet, and a one-night-only interactive exhibition by DC-based artist Dan Steinhilber.

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Visitors interact with Dan Steinhilber’s Interface artworks. (Left) Photo: Instagram/etxeco (right) Photo: Instagram/conniepaik

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A beautiful evening to enjoy the Phillips’s courtyard. (Left) Photo: Instagram/rebleber (right) Photo: Instagram/ksnahyun

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Instagrammer @nataliemueller3 on Dan Steinhilber’s participatory work at Phillips after 5: “A fun, interactive take on the disconnect from the talking heads of DC and the digital world and the moving body”

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(Left) @cocktailsandcraft shares the view from The Jazzy Mule: scotch, elderflower liqueur, bitters, ginger beer, lime (right) Instagrammer @dnl340 captures The Pete Muldoon Sextet in action

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The view from inside Dan Steinhilber’s interactive artworks. (Left) Photo: Instagram/hprlhoda (right) Photo: Instagram/christine60605

Inflating a Chat Room: Dan Steinhilber’s Interactive Artwork

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Experiment Station

Artist Dan Steinhilber sets up interactive work “Interface” for Phillips after 5 on June 2. Photos: Amy Wike

In preparation for tonight’s Phillips after 5, DC-based artist Dan Steinhilber visited the museum yesterday to test out his interactive Interface artwork in the galleries. Steinhilber’s work, which was recently featured at G Fine Art, invites visitors to enter into the piece and create a unique experience for themselves and other participants. Comprising five inflatable, bag-like sculptures (made from plastic stretch wrap, wood, and computer fans), Interface is a riff on our addiction to the Internet, instant yet remote communication, and virtual reality. The wearable aspect of these works—visitors insert their “talking-heads” inside the sculptures while their hands remain outside—offers an estranged and disembodied experience.

Artist Dan Steinhilber sets up interactive work “Interface” for Phillips after 5 on June 2

Steinhilber placed works around the gallery before inflating and adjusting

Artist Dan Steinhilber sets up interactive work “Interface” for Phillips after 5 on June 2

“Untitled Mobile Interface Site (Conversation Pillow),” 2016, rests against a gallery wall

Steinhilber inside “Untitled Mobile Interface Site (Chat Room),” 2016

Artist Dan Steinhilber sets up interactive work “Interface” for Phillips after 5 on June 2

ArtGrams: Recent Acquisitions

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Experiment Station

@shamp_jeff shared this still of Brian Dailey’s video “Jikai” (2013)

In this month’s ArtGrams, we share your photos of our recent acquisitions galleries. From Annette Messager’s plush toy installation to Brian Dailey’s video artwork to Franz Erhard Walther’s participatory Red Song, these galleries highlight some of the contemporary works in our collection.

Visitors have been fascinated by Annette Messager’s “Mes petites effigies (My Little Effigies)” (1989-90), including Instagrammer @thearthouze, who snapped this photo of the installation

Instagrammer @lydiawawa shared “Four Courts/ Dublin A and B” by Jan Dibbets (1983)

Instagrammer @kerryscheidt: “Franz Erhard Walther ‘Red Song’ as interpreted by @davidkfreeman

Cuddly or creepy? Instagrammer @rianmack zooms in on Annette Messager’s installtion

“Copula” by Ernesto Neto uses gallery space creatively. Photo captured by Instagrammer @cehhoerr

Instagrammer @blindobject also zoomed in close for this photo of Juliao Sarmento’s “Tirar a Renda E Soprar na Flor (To Take Off the Lace and Blow the Flower” (1997)

A recent acquisition by Kara Walker, “Crest of Pine Mountain, where General Polk Fell” (2005). Photo by @nomadyard

Instagrammer @h.m.jacobs’s view of Annette Messager’s installation