Event Info:

Mads Lynnerup: Take a Day for Yourself!

Mads Lynnerup has long been interested in the everyday. Now the Brooklyn-based Danish artist, whose last installation was devoted to routines, explores what happens when people depart from those routines, or even disrupt them. In Take a Day for Yourself, Lynnerup enlists random members of the Troy and RPI communities to do just that: take the day for themselves. Whatever happens next is up to them. The rich and inventive uses Lynnerup’s subjects make of the ensuing 12 hours of stolen time are shown on short videos and oversized posters that together make up a whimsical visual guide to taking a day off in Troy—or anywhere else—and to gently subverting some of the fundamental expectations of our society.

Images: Take a Day for Yourself (Collage), 2009 Mads Lynnerup © 2009

Curator: Kathleen Forde

FREE + Open to the public

Exhibition Posters

Exhibition posters from Take a Day for Yourself!

• Chicken Dance — (Kathleen & Charles Tesnakis) » Order
• Grafton Peace Pagota — (Stanley Hadsell) » Order
• Organize & Read — (Royah Ansari) » Order
• Records and Malts — (Peter Jones) » Order
• Katterskill Falls — (Michelle Cerone) » Order
• Old Journals & Beer — (Jack Magai) » Order
• Photos & Memories — (Nina Pattison) » Order
• Family & Poems — (Elias Hajj Nasr) » Order

Mads Lynnerup:

Mads Lynnerup’s work incorporates video, printmaking, sculpture and performance in an ongoing investigation of phenomena that most of us take for granted. His subjects have included the anti-terrorist posters on the New York subways (If You See Anything Interesting, Please Let Someone Know Immediately) and the daily routines of residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood (Routines). He has shown his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, P.S. 1 in New York, and Warsaw’s Zacheta National Gallery of Art, and is represented in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the Miami Art Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the San Jose Museum of Modern Art.