A brand new venue for durational artwork, Canyon, will open its doorways on the Decrease East Facet of Manhattan in 2026. The 40,000 sq. ft hub for video, sound, efficiency artwork and extra, was based by the philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz and is being overseen by Joe Thompson, the founding director of the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Artwork (Mass Moca).
The undertaking is an adaptive re-use of unoccupied industrial house and can reside on the intersection of a museum and efficiency venue. The house is being designed by the architectural agency New Associates and can embrace 18,000 sq. ft of galleries designed for video and audio displays, plus a 60ft-tall plaza to function a central gathering house. There will even be a efficiency corridor with a capability to host 300 folks for a for a spread of screenings, lectures, podcast recordings and different front-facing programming. Canyon will even be geared up with bars, a restaurant and a restaurant.
“We hope to create a brand new type of cultural and social house—one designed to assist the complexity and ambition of artwork wealthy with transferring imagery, music and sound, whereas additionally rethinking how audiences interact with it,” Thompson mentioned in an announcement. “Canyon will give attention to technical excellence and considerate presentation of essential artwork, however it would additionally emphasise hospitality and ambiance, which suggests comfy, sociable viewing areas that really feel extra akin to a lounge than white dice.”
Rendering of Canyon that includes works by (left to proper) Theo Triantafyllidis, Jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) and Jakob Kudsk Steensen Courtesy of the artists and CANYON; © New Associates
Based as a type of “enterprise philanthropy” by the Rosenkranz Basis, Canyon is a non-profit organisation with “conventional sources of funding”, based on press supplies for the undertaking. Its opening coincides with a spate of high-profile presents from the Rosenkranz Basis, together with its largest so far, a donation to Stanford College to assist the event of health-improving innovation by means of professorships within the Stem (science, expertise, engineering, arithmetic and medication) fields.
Cass Fino-Radin, a conservator and new media professional, will be a part of Canyon’s workforce as director of artwork and expertise, alongside curator-at-large Sam Ozer, the curator, producer and author who based Tono, a time-based nonprofit arts organisation. Canyon will even foster long-term institutional partnerships with Digital Arts Intermix, Rhizome (the brand new media New Museum affiliate and platform) and the Archive of Modern Music.
“Canyon displays my perception that cultural establishments should evolve to satisfy the mental and sensory lives of latest audiences,” Rosenkranz mentioned in an announcement. “The artists working in time-based media in the present day are grappling with all the pieces from synthetic intelligence and facial recognition to local weather anxiousness and cultural reminiscence. This isn’t only a style however a frontline of cultural expression.”
The organisation is planning to host three main seasonal exhibition cycles yearly—in spring, summer time and autumn—that may run the gamut from experiments to retrospectives. At present, a significant retrospective of the Japanese composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda is on the books, set to take over the complete house. A gaggle exhibition of 35 worldwide artists curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Worldbuilding, can be in improvement. The performing arts program at Canyon is predicted to interact artists like William Kentridge, Trooko and Laurie Anderson.
