MTAA: All the Holidays All at Once August 30, 2011

MTAA is a Brooklyn-based artists' collective that originated in 1996 and comprises Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden. The practice of this troupe is based in performance and relies on the participation of the community to create the work, which is generally ephemeral. For their project at The Aldrich, MTAA will make a call to the community asking for the temporary loan of holiday-themed lawn ornaments in order to display them in the sculpture garden. Decorations celebrating holidays as varied as New Year's, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas will be arranged in a parade-like procession and during the summer a performance will celebrate all the holidays at once.