Placed upon wooden boards, the gallery’s main attraction evokes the nostalgia of summertime trips to an amusement park boardwalk. The LA-based visual artist is described as a lifelong roller coaster enthusiast who, since childhood, always dreamed of erecting his own catapulting coaster.
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Organized by MASS MoCA Curator Alexandra Foradas, the gallery - which includes a series of sculptures and paintings reaffirming the dizzying motif - is Hill’s first solo show and largest exhibition to date. The assemblage of the 260-feet track marks the first time that a full-circuit roller coaster has been designed and constructed within a museum space, according to the amusement park company. Byrne-Seres helped to assemble the unique installment that arrived to North Adams in fifteen pieces just weeks ago and was made functional with the help of Skyline Attractions, a theme park design and fabrication company. “With it riding only once per hour, the idea is that instead of having a conventional coaster that tries to get as many people as possible, we wanted a more specialized experience,” said Spencer Byrne-Seres, museum director of art fabrication. But thrill-seekers will need some patience: There is already a month-long waitlist to climb aboard the ride known as “Brava!” Due to its limited schedule of daily runs, there will only be about 1800 riders over the exhibit’s 18-month run. We hope that our actions will inspire other workers to join the labor movement and obtain the rights they deserve.Patrons will be able to climb inside the single-rider vehicle atop the track and ride the coaster, which, starting this weekend, runs hourly Wednesday through Monday. We stand in solidarity with workers at the Marciano Art Foundation, the New Museum, the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, MoMA, The Met, Berkeley Art Museum, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the LA Museum of Tolerance, the Frye Museum, and the many factions of workers all over the world whose labor has been undervalued. We believe that fair compensation for all workers throughout the museum is essential to ensuring its diversity: salaries, wages, and benefits at the museum must be sustainable for everyone, regardless of the privileges afforded them by race, class, or gender.
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We install the artworks on view, guard exhibitions, and greet and educate visitors, giving them something to walk away with when they leave the museum. The workers at MOCA have organized because we desire pride in our place of work and we are advocates for the necessary changes that will maintain the Museum’s integrity. If MOCA is indeed committed to its mission of remaining contemporary and embracing the inevitability of change, it is imperative to join the movement in the name of greater equity and inclusivity. Instead of looking outside of the Museum for answers, we ask that leadership listen to its own workers and hear our needs directly. We have come together to collectively improve our working conditions. We work in the Education, Exhibitions, Retail, Visitor Engagement and Communications departments of the museum. We believe in the power of art and its role in society therefore, we see our work as vital to its success in reaching our community.
In order to fulfill MOCA’s civic responsibility, we call on you to not only consider your duty to the community through improvements for visitors, but to afford the same sentiments toward the workers who actively embody the primary mission of The Museum. In 1979 The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) was incorporated with the purpose of operating as a public institution.
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