themetropolitancomplex.com - The Metropolitan Complex

Description: The Metropolitan Complex is a project by Sarah Pierce set up through one-to-one and group exchanges. A pressing interest includes using different lines of inquiry that involve artists and institutions in combined strategies to think about shared circumstances, and to discover common points of reference that declare a local scene.

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2021 | Shelter Bread & Freedom | 2020 | One Love Leads to Another | 2017 | No Title | 2016 | The Square | 2015 | Pathos of Distance | Gag | 2014 | Birdcalls (after Louise Lawler) | My dear Betty | Levitating in the Nauman | Tree Dance (with live element) | Lost Illusions/Illusions perdues | 2013 | Six Propositions | Future Exhibitions | 2012 | Towards a Newer Laocoön | The Artist Talks | The Question Would be the Answer to the Question | 2011 | Intelligence of the Measured Hand | What is already and what wi

Since 2003, Sarah Pierce has used the term The Metropolitan Complex to describe her project, characterised by forms of gathering, both historical examples and those she initiates. The processes of research and presentation that she undertakes demonstrate a broad understanding of cultural work and a continual renegotiation of the terms for making art, the potential for dissent, and self-determination. Pierce works with installation, performance, archives, talks and papers, often opening these up to the perso

Pierce holds a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths College (2014) and an MFA from the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (1994), and she is a past participant of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York (1995). She is a past Member and Chair of the Board at Project Arts Centre in Dublin (2010-2020). She teaches in the School of Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

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