Curious at the MCA

Office Hours with Jenny Magnus

May 17 – 27, 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Tuesdays – Fridays from noon to 1 p.m.
Reservations at jennymagnus.com

Jenny Magnus is available: for conversation, for consultation, for any kind of discussion during her Office Hours. Seated at a table in the MCA lobby each weekday from noon to 1 p.m., Jenny is here for conversations with you.

This practice, staged as part of an extended MCA Stage artist residency, feeds her research for a new large ensemble performance. Conceived as an insider's view of theater making, the finished Untitled Curious Show will be performed by the Curious Theatre Branch with Crooked Mouth String Band on the MCA Stage in Fall 2011.

Some topics that are relevant to the new work include:

• theater as a place of work, both physical and intellectual
• how to sustain the ecology of art making over a lifetime
• sculpting attention, and how an artist can compose attention on a stage
• being a parent and an artist, and how to be "good enough" at both
• the artist ensemble as tribe and clan

But she will gladly talk about whatever you want to talk about. In the spirit of Lucy's booth in Charles Schulz' Peanuts, the artist is in.

Support for the Curious Theatre Branch Development Residency is provided by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.