Joëlle Tuerlinckx: THAT'S IT!

From September 24 to 30, at Dia:Beacon, Joëlle Tuerlinckx (b. 1958, Brussels) will present her first live commission in the United States: THAT’S IT!. 

Tuerlinckx’s commission for Dia proposes a comprehensive “museum choreography”—an ambitious performance that will take place over the course of one week. THAT’S IT! will feature events each day that respond to Dia’s collection and the architecture of Dia:Beacon. Tuerlinckx and her regular actors will perform different scenes each day in and around the museum. She has also invited several groups from the Hudson Valley including firefighters, youth softball players, and a high school marching band to enact specific choreographies that traverse the galleries. 

The events will be set to a live score, and the entire performance will be filmed in real time, extending the encounter between artwork, museum, and spectator. Dia will present the resulting feature-length film, produced by Escautville, in the coming years.

Event Schedule and Reservations
Monday, September 24, 2018, 11am–6pm
Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 1:30–4pm (museum is closed; reservations required)
Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 1:30–4pm (museum is closed; reservations required)
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 11 am–6pm 
Friday, September 28, 2018, 11 am–6pm
Saturday, September 29, 2018, 11 am–5pm 
Sunday, September 30, 2018, 11 am–6pm

The events will take place throughout each day, with intermittent pauses. Admission is free with the purchase of a museum ticket.

Reservations are required on closed museum days: Tuesday, September 25, and Wednesday, September 26. Reservations are also available at the door, subject to availability. For more information and to make a reservation, visit the website.
 

Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Joëlle Tuerlinckx was born in Brussels in 1958. She has exhibited and shown internationally, most recently with a solo exhibition at Centre international d’art et du paysage, Vassivière, and LLS Paleis, Antwerp, in 2018. Tuerlinckx was the subject of a traveling three-part retrospective presented at Arnolfini in Bristol (2013), Haus der Kunst in Munich (2013), and Wiels Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels (2012). She has also exhibited at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2009), Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva (2007), Drawing Center, New York (2006), Power Plant, Toronto (2005), Ausstellungshalle Münster (2005), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2003), South London Gallery (2002), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2001), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (1999), and Witte de With, Rotterdam (1994). Tuerlinckx’s first performance work, THAT’S IT! (+3 FREE minutes) (2014), was presented at Tate Modern in London (2014), before it traveled to Het Veem Theater in Amsterdam, Playground Festival in Leuven, Belgium, and Kaaitheater in Brussels. She lives and works in Brussels. 
 

Funding
Joëlle Tuerlinckx: THAT’S IT! is made possible by support from Dia’s Director’s Council: Fady Jameel, Leslie and Mac McQuown, Alice and Tom Tisch, and Sara and Evan Williams. Additional support is provided by Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Galerie Nagel Draxler GbR, Liliane Salama, and David Schwartz Foundation, Inc.

Dia
Taking its name from the Greek word meaning “through,” Dia was established in 1974 with the mission to serve as a conduit for artists to realize ambitious new projects, unmediated by overt interpretation and uncurbed by the limitations of more traditional museums and galleries. In addition to Dia:Beacon and Dia:Chelsea, Dia maintains and operates a constellation of commissions, long-term installations, site-specific projects, and Land art, nationally and internationally.

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