Get in on the game as we challenge you to follow the clues around NYC to satellite venues and events surrounding our biennial, The (S) files 2011. Learn about the artists, their work, and what inspires them as you make your way through the exhibition. Each week we ll be posting 3 featured clues on our Facebook page,www.facebook.com/elmuseo, with a complete listing of clues and details available below. Find answers in unexpected places, like our galleries, online videos, and special events. The first 50 participants to visit three of the four featured venues will win a special (S) Files Prize package, including the exhibition catalogue. Scavenger hunt runs now through November 30, 2011. QUESTIONS/ANSWERS LOCATION PTS 1 Q: In Priscila de Carvalho s work Platforms she reflects those walls that separate different parts of society from one another. In this piece she recreates a slice of New York City, the kind of things one sees in boroughs like Brooklyn or the Bronx. Somewhere in this work we see a woman wearing a sign selling something, what is she selling? 2 Q: In artist Daniel Bejar s work Get Lost he takes things we see everyday puts them in a new context. For this work he took subway signs and renamed the boroughs. How did he spell Manhattan, and the Bronx? Why did he spell them that way? or
3 Q: Justine Reyes based her piece Usual Suspects on what New York safety campaign? Q: What is in the cardboard box and what airline did the black duffle bag fly on? 4 Q: Puerto Rican artist Christian Curiel s work is dream like, a place where he finds inspiration for his art. In the painting Sombras de Bellhaven there is a yellow and white trailer in the background. Who or what is in this trailer? 5 Q: Lee Quinones and Lady Pink starred in which 1982 film about the NYC graffiti and Hip Hop Scene? 6 Q: Janelle Iglesias uses found or familiar objects in her work. She is interested in the stories they tell and the values they reveal about who made them or owned them. In her sculpture "Bridge and Tunnel Kids have more Fun" she has a birdcage filled with what familiar object from her childhood? 7 Q: Joaquin Rodriguez Del Paso, from Puebla, Mexico focuses on the issue of identity and culture. In his piece "Who is Afraid of Red, White and Blue?" What are the images he presents as symbols of America from a Latin American perspective?
8 Q: Both Lisa and Janelle Iglesias work with materials they have found in the streets. They use both language and the form of objects in inventive ways. What does Lisa Iglesias's large scale nameplate chain say? 9 Q: Firelei Baez uses her silhouette, in her piece Can I Pass? which underscores her hair texture and refers to skin color, as a kind of personal history or journal of portraits. How many days are in her calendar? or 4pt 10 Q: Edwin Gonzalez-Ojeda uses the formal and conceptual language of graffiti to create a new gesture that explores gay identity. What "tough" piece of clothing did the artist re-conceive? Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance On view through Nov. 16 10pt l 11 Q: Among his many illustrations, Julio Granados favors scenes from his adopted home, New York City. Among his many scenes are views of the subway. In his piece Pandemonium Which animals appear in Julio Granados image? 3pt 12 Q: Felipe Galindo creates charming images of New York City's various populations and often incorporates unexpected materials into the works. Name a non-traditional material used by the artist as the background for his drawing in At the Permanent Collection II. 4pt
13 Q: Gerard Ellis mixes abstract lines with what household pet in one of his paintings? 7 pt 14 Q: Gisela Insuaste uses colors, forms and objects to re-order space. Here, she uses a column from the modernist art building by famed architect Marcel Breuer. Name the non-paint material Gisela Insuaste has used in this site-specific work. 15 Q: Nicoykatiushka present performance BRIC Rotunda pieces in which the relationship between two opens Nov.9 bodies is often an important part of the work. Which object is the focus of their video/installation? 9 pt Bonus Question #1: What key piece of sports equipment did NyK use for their performance in Times Square? Bonus Question #2: In the S Files Video about Sol Aramendi the artist created Project Luz to use photography as a vehicle for empowerment. In one piece she has a woman doing what to her records? Bonus Question #3: In the video featuring Juan Betancurth he talks about his work. He talks about the objects in his favorite Aunt s living room, her relationship to them that inspired his work. He says her objects do what for her?
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