Neveruses Runway Report: Reception and Performance

Join the Education Department at MAD for a reception and performance celebrating the inaugural MAD Process Lab installation, Josh Blackwell: Neveruses Report Progress, on view in Project Space through Sunday, February 18. The event will take place on the 6th floor of the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. 

Beginning at 6 pm, MAD’s 6th floor will feature a performance activating Blackwell’s works by dancer/choreographer Daniel Roberts and musician Alex Huberty. This ongoing cross-disciplinary collaboration is founded upon a kindred approach to making things. The artists work with their materials—whether movement, sound, or art objects—in a responsive and improvisational manner. As Roberts and Huberty move through the Project Space, Artist Studios, and Classroom, they will be accompanied by performers dressed in wearable art-garments. 

Josh Blackwell makes intentionally redundant objects from plastic bags. The plastic bag is a cipher—its malignance derives from its perceived worthlessness. Transformed via colorful embroidery, photography, video, performance, and music, his series Neveruses proposes new and unexpected purposes for this ubiquitous resource.

On view in the 6th-floor Project Space, Josh Blackwell: Neveruses Report Progress is the inaugural installation of the Education Department’s MAD Process Lab, a new series exploring an individual artist’s practice—from inspiration to exhibition—in great depth. Including site-specific installations of raw materials and works in progress transported directly from the artist’s studio, MAD Process Lab presentations feature a small selection of finished artworks among larger displays of studio samples, photographic documentation, research materials, notes, ephemera, and other items that inform an artist’s work. 

The performance will take place at 7:00 PM.