January 29, 2009
New Museum seeks sleepy women for installation
The American Museum of Natural History allows sleepovers, the Guggenheim anyspacewhatever exhibition allowed couples to spend the night in its “Revolving Hotel Room” installation after the museum closed, and the Top of the Rock even allowed Brides magazine to open a Mile High Club atop Rockefeller Center this week.
 And now the New Museum of Contemporary Art is getting in on the action. But they’ll actually pay you $10 an hour to sleep in an exhibition while the museum’s open.
The upcoming exhibition “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will feature an installation by artist Chu Yun who “creates a human sculpture by inducing sleep.”
The artist creates installations that challenge commonly accepted elements of contemporary society,” according to the ad on the American Association of Museums job board.
(A New Museum representative confirmed to NewYorkology that the ad is indeed real and they’ve been “inundated with replies already.”)
More details from the job board:
The title of the work changes according to the participant’s name, from This is Kate to This is Jenny and so forth. It was first exhibited at Frieze Art Fair in London, where the piece featured a different participant each day.
Chu Yun’s work has been exhibited throughout China and Europe.
Participant profile
Women aged between 18 and 40 who are willing to come and sleep at the Museum during its opening hours to the public. Volunteers who can make a long-term commitment and who have current valid health insurance will be given priority.
The New Museum will cover the cost of a visit to each participant’s regular doctor as well as a prescription for a sleeping aid. Participants will have to come to the museum by 11:45 am, consume a sleeping aid, get into a bed installed in the exhibition space, and sleep as many consecutive hours as possible.
Working Hours & Conditions
Exhibition: April 7th, 2009 – June 28th, 2009: during the opening hours of the museum (Wednesday 12-6pm, Thursday and Friday 12-9pm, Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm).
Ideally, we expect each participant to sleep for 6 hours
See Vitamin Creative for a photo gallery of Chu Yun’s “This is XX” in 2006.
(Link found via Vidiot and WFMU.)
Image source: This is Kate, Mixed Media, 2006 at Vitamin Creative.
January 29, 2009 4:50 PM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Museums, Sightsology
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