Artist Ann Hamilton on What it Means to Be “Alone Together” in the Experience of an Exhibition

Visual artist Ann Hamilton shares how her study of Philadelphia’s history of textile production inspires her thinking around the relationship between production and consumption. “Now, increasingly, we all function as consumers, it’s a form of participation,” Hamilton says. “There’s a real difference between consuming an experience and having an experience, and so how can we make spaces where you have a sense of some collective, shared experience within your own individuality?”

Ann Hamilton is internationally recognized for her large scale, multimedia installations, including "the event of a thread," which was staged in 2012 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The recipient of a National Medal of Arts, MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, and United States Artists Fellowship, Hamilton was chosen to represent the US at the 1991 São Paulo Biennial and the 1999 Venice Biennale.

Filmed on September 15, 2016.
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