Nov 8, 2011

CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and November’s Artist-in-Residence, CONTACT co-founder Legacy Russell, with her year-long durational project OPEN CEREMONY, showcased by public arts presenter Trust Art. 

About CONTACTinRESIDENCE

 Each month one artist will be selected by the CONTACT staff and featured on the CONTACT Journal as an Artist-in-Residence in our virtual space. Making use of the digital platform, this artist will use the CONTACT lens to meditate on their own creative practice. 

IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST

LEGACY is currently working on a project titled OPEN CEREMONY. Beginning in 2011 and moving into early 2012 OPEN CEREMONY will be showcased by the Brooklyn-based Trust Art, a presenter of commissioned artists’ projects and exhibitions in public spaces. This will be a durational project wherein Legacy will spend the year intermittently building site-specific installations (“social shrines”) and points of interactive engagement in and around Lower Manhattan. The videos featured here are from the first and second “rites” of the project.

Join the ceremony by “liking” OPEN CEREMONY on Facebook. 

For more updates, follow @OpenCeremony and @LegacyRussell on Twitter.

About LEGACY RUSSELL

Legacy Russell (LEGACY) is an East Village born-and-bred artist, writer, curator, and creative producer. Legacy holds a dual degree from Macalester College (2008) in Studio Art & Art History and English, with a concentration in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

Residing in New York City, Legacy is the Art Editor at BOMB magazine’s renowned online journal, BOMBlog. Legacy has also worked at The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in 2010 she was granted a six-month Curatorial Fellowship with CREATIVE TIME. Her work has been published in the hip-hop feminist anthology Home Girls Make Some Noise, The Santa Fe Literary Journal, The Humble Arts Foundation online journal, the online theological journal Killing the Buddha, and more.


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