Presented as part of “AUNTSforcamera” and R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY.

An important interactive component of the installation of “AUNTSforcamera” at the New Museum includes a series of nine artist-devised tours, which have been organized using AUNTS’ chain-curation model. Nine artists have been invited by “AUNTSforcamera” artists to create a response to the exhibition in the form of a tour, which will be performed exclusively for and with participating audiences. Ben Van Burren was invited by Gillian Walsh.

Walsh has used her participation in AUNTS events to develop material in a shared public workroom—outside the sanctity of the studio or theater. In Walsh’s Primary Source (video): AUNTS at the New Museum 2012, 2014 (2014), this practice becomes the subject of an intimate single-channel work that uses private videos as a form of primary-source personal archiving. Riffing on the institutional specificity that shaped Walsh’s work, Ben Van Buren has created an audio tour that aims to give the listener a better sense of the constellation of factors that make “AUNTSforcamera” possible. The tour investigates a number of (primary) sources on its quest to understand the dialogues and debates that both instantiate and complicate the creation and display of particular works of art.

In keeping with the spirit of AUNTS, the currency of exchange for attending these tours is not monetary; instead visitors must provide proof of submission to #auntsforcamera, an interactive work by Karl Scholz included in the “AUNTSforcamera” exhibition. #auntsforcamera utilizes the downloadable app OchoVideo to record eight-second user-generated video clips to become part of a sequenced single-channel video installation (on view in the New Museum lobby) that accumulates over the course of the entire project from September 8, 2014, to February 15, 2015.