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Rather than create beautiful objects to be exhibited on a gallery wall, Carolyn Porter locates her art outside the frame, in the marginal “non-art” places of a museum or gallery. Porter’s subject is the processes and politics of the art institution, and she seeks to make artistic interventions- with the collaboration and cooperation of the arts organizations themselves- that demystify the art world. She has written, “Museums and galleries are, by definition, selective and exclusive due to many elements, including space, finances, availability of works, and biases of the organizers. The totality and comprehensiveness which many art exhibitions claim to represent is a fiction and even a fantasy.”
Porter prefers to insert herself “behind the scenes”, working with areas of institutions that are usually less visible to visitors, including public relations offices, museum stores, and areas devoted to security. Her work falls somewhere between interactive installation and public art, and is akin to that of such project-based artists as Mel Chin, Hans Haake, Barbara Kruger, Mierle Ukeles, and Julia Sher.
Dana Friis-Hansen,
Dr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Butler Executive Director
Austin Museum of Art
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