Ten Huts. Jill Sigman

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      ten huts

      ten huts

      jill sigman

      wesleyan university press ∙ middletown, connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2017 Jill Sigman

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in Canada

      Designed by Eric M. Brooks and Scott Cahoon

      Typeset in Fresco Sans by Passumpsic Publishing

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Sigman, Jill. | Lepecki, André. | Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. | Springer, Elise, 1970– | Yaa Asantewaa, Eva. | McLendon, Matthew.

      Title: Ten huts / Jill Sigman.

      Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017006117 (print) | LCCN 2017012574 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819576903 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819576897 (cloth : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Sigman, Jill. Hut project. | Site-specific installations (Art) | Site-specific theater. | Refuse as art material.

      Classification: LCC N6537.S5395 (ebook) | LCC N6537. S5395 A76 2017 (print) | DDC 709.04/074—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017006117

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      Photo credits: pages i and vi, Rafael Gamo; page iv, Daniel Perales; page viii, L2 Lab/Alejandra Ugarte; page xvii, Ellie Bloom

      Front cover: (top: Elisabeth Færøy Lund; (bottom, l-r): Ellie Bloom, Matthew McLendon, Jill Sigman, L2 Lab/Alejandra Ugarte, Vanessa Albury. Back cover (l-r): Ellie Bloom, Daniel Perales, Eva Bakkeslett, L2 Lab/Alejandra Ugarte, Rachel Eisley

       To my parents

      ABRAHAM & MARCIA SIGMAN

      contents

       Foreword ∙ ix

       Preface ∙ xiii

       Paradise Declassified ∙ 1

       THE HUTS

       HUT #1

       The Border, Brooklyn, New York ∙ 27

       HUT #2

       The Border, Brooklyn, New York ∙ 33

       HUT #3

       The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York ∙ 41

       HUT #4

       The Border, Brooklyn, New York ∙ 49

       HUT #5

       The Border, Brooklyn, New York ∙ 61

       HUT #6

       The Norwegian Opera, Oslo, Norway ∙ 71

       HUT #7

       Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, New York ∙ 87

       HUT #8

       The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, Manhattan, New York ∙ 103

       HUT #9

       Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark ∙ 113

       HUT #10

       The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida ∙ 127

       A POSTSCRIPT

       Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale 2015, Kjerringøy, Norway ∙ 149

       THE ESSAYS

       dwelling object hut thing ∙ 165

      ANDRÉ LEPECKI

       The Century of Compost: Some Thoughts about Waste, Huts, and Pippi Longstocking ∙ 173

      THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN

       Being Moved, Moving Ourselves ∙ 179

      ELISE SPRINGER

       Planting Dance at the Crossroads ∙ 187

      EVA YAA ASANTEWAA

       The Queer Frontier of Jill Sigman’s Hut Project ∙ 191

      MATTHEW MCLENDON

       Acknowledgments