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...graduate of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department and a multi-disciplinary artist, Wing is currently organizing an event called Bizarre Animals at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Using the building and its exhibits as their inspiration, Wing and a team of contemporary artists will take over the Museum on the night of March 26, installing the space with a variety of multi-media “art interventions.” Billed as a night that “will transform the Harvard Museum of Natural History into a laboratory, library, exploratorium, and stage...
...Wing, who also currently serves as a Carpenter Center Fellow, conceived Bizarre Animals as an opportunity for artists to use the Museum itself as inspiration for projects. She invited several friends—including many fellow Harvard alumni—and gave them the freedom to propose projects based on whatever interested them about the Museum...
...central aspect of it for me was to invite artists to come and each engage in the space in a different way,” Wing says. “Each person is taking what their creative practice is outside and bringing it into the space to create a special project...
Beyond professionals and alumni like Feehan, some undergraduates will also have the chance to participate in the exhibit. Prior to the event, Wing and fellow VES alumna M. Elizabeth Glynn ’03 will conduct several cooperative workshops with undergraduates in which participants will discuss methods of documentation—a topic that has interested Wing since she studied photography as a student in VES. Her plan is to explore major questions about the relationship between performance, documentation, and their role in a museum environment. The seminars will culminate with the undergraduates deciding how to document Bizarre Animals...
...Wing hopes these seminars will contribute to the open-ended nature of the project. “Maybe the students will decide that they are ahistorical and think we shouldn’t do anything. Maybe they’ll decide we should live stream it. Maybe they’ll decide we should just make sketches,” Wing says. “I’m just excited to have that conversation with them...