2014
Sphere
Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York. She has received grants and fellowships from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, and the Art Matters Foundation. Mattingly’s work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, Seoul Arts Center, The New York Public Library, the Palais de Tokyo, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. She recently participated in MoMA PS1’s EXPO 1 with Triple Canopy magazine and the smARTpower project in the Philippines with the U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her work has been featured in Aperture, Art in America, Artforum, ArtNews, Sculpture, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and on BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, News 12, NPR, WNBC, New York 1, and PBS’s Art21. Her writings were included in Nature, edited by Jeffrey Kastner, in the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series. In 2012, she launched the Flock House Project: three spherical living-systems choreographed throughout New York City’s five boroughs. Mattingly also founded the Waterpod Project, a barge-based public space containing an autonomous habitat that migrated through New York’s waterways.
Performance
As if to prepare for imminent catastrophe, Mattingly has been divesting herself of personal possessions. Over several months, she archived every object she owns and traced their histories—“how it came into her life, its distribution via complex global supply chains, as well as where the raw materials for its manufacture were sourced.” Mattingly then bundled her personal property into a boulder-like sphere bound together by twine and dragged it across the Bayonne Bridge from Staten Island to Bayonne, New Jersey; and along King Street from Kitchener City Hall to Waterloo Public Square. For this performance, she (with help from the public) will pull it from Mississauga to Oakville, and back again.
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