List Projects: Ann Hirsch

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A young woman, clad in pink bikini, with her arms stretched out, float on the bright blue water of a swimming pool.

Ann Hirsch, Here for You (Or My Brief Love Affair with Frank Maresca), 2010. Video projection, wall vinyl, color, sound; 14 min. Courtesy the artist.

Location
Bakalar Gallery
Featured Artists
Ann Hirsch
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Ann Hirsch’s work in video and performance considers the effects of technology on popular culture; many of her projects examine how young women are portrayed and present themselves in social media and online.

Hirsch—who often characterizes her work as research—has started a YouTube channel for one of her personas which gained a cult following, appeared as a contestant on a reality television show, and created a series of works loosely based on her pre-teen experience in an online chat room in the 1990s. The exhibition at the List Center will include three projects (the artist’s self-described “greatest hits”): Scandalishious (2008-2009), Here for You (Or My Brief Love Affair with Frank Maresca) (2010), and Twelve (2013).

Ann Hirsch (b. 1985, Baltimore) lives and works in Los Angeles. Hirsch holds an MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University and a BFA in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Recent exhibitions and performances include MOCA Los Angeles; Performa, New York; Goldsmith’s College for South London Gallery, London; and the New Museum, New York. Hirsch was awarded a 2012-2013 commission for her two-person play Playground, which debuted at the New Museum as part of the Rhizome Commissions program and was recently awarded a 2014 WaveFarm Media Arts grant to continue producing this show.

List Projects: Ann Hirsch is curated by Henriette Huldisch, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Sponsors

Support for this exhibition has been generously provided by the Council for the Arts at MIT, the Office of the Associate Provost at MIT, Terry & Rick Stone, MIT School of Architecture + Planning, the MIT List Visual Arts Center Advisory Committee, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and many generous individual donors. Special thanks to Fatboy USA.

Images

2 visitors watch a projected video framed by the drawing of an old TV, as another visitor interacts with a wall-mounted iPad.
3 visitors, 1 standing, 2 seated on beanbags and stool, watch 4 wall-mounted monitors in a darkened gallery.
2 visitors interact with wall-mounted iPads while a visitor sits on beanbags watching 4 wall-mounted monitors.
4 wall-mounted monitors, 1 show a young woman on a red sofa, 2 show young male figures and another displays text.
On an iPad screen, a teenage girl in tight camisole and shorts poses with arm on the back of her head while seated on a bed.
Seated in a dark green landscape, a young woman clings to a man in white tuxedo with his arm around her back.
2 visitors watching videos on 4 wall-mounted monitors in a dark gallery.
An overlay of yellow, green, pink, red and blue stripes color the image of a young woman in formal wear speaking into a mic.
6 frames show a young woman wearing a peach top and pink pants in suggestive and awkward poses on a bed.
Blurred image of a young woman in formal dress holding a mic with “CENSORED” covering her mouth.
Montage of screens showing young male and female personae, 2 in face masks, speaking and playing to the camera.
Sitting side by side on a step of a wood staircase, a muscular man converses with a young woman smiling flirtatiously at him.
Close-up of the curled hair, made-up face and bare shoulders of a young woman wearing sparkly dangling earrings.
A young woman, clad in pink bikini, with her arms stretched out, float on the bright blue water of a swimming pool.

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