LETS GET TO WORK
July 21 - October 20, 2001
The Susquehanna Art Museum will open the first component of its traveling exhibition Let's Get To Work (LGTW) on Saturday, July 21. The exhibition is a high-energy, cross-cultural project that unites 2 curators and the work of 29 artists from Europe and the United States.
Let's Get To Work proposes a plan to build a city where the artist constructs ideal (or unideal) systems and structures, positing a new ecology of living and working. The Let's Get to Work exhibition will serve as the physical embodiment of ideas that shift conventions of thinking, creating, and interacting. The museum's galleries will serve as a site for this open-ended research. Should we live or work here? View or act? LGTW acts on our continued need to re-evaluate the places in which we live and work, and forms the artist's role in proposing alternative versions for the future.
The exhibition will travel to several US venues through 2002/2003, including the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in November/December. The Milton Hershey School Museum (Hershey, PA) and Base Kamp (Philadelphia, PA) will serve as secondary project sites in September and November, respectively.
Let's Get to Work has been developed by a collaboration between artist/curators Gavin Wade (London) and Jonathan VanDyke (Philadelphia). The project began in 2000 as the museum was preparing to move into a major new facility in downtown Harrisburg. Such a move generated questions about the museum's role within the city and within the lives of its inhabitants. Let's Get to Work suggests a museum as a laboratory of ideas with artists as doers.