The Purchase Independent

The same student Planning Committee that designed the Election Confessions event last November is presenting a new topical night of entertainment next week. The similarly titled night of Neu Media Confessions is based around the current New Media: Why exhibit and is planned during the museum’s monthly First Wednesdays program, a night of extended museum hours and entertainment designed especially for Purchase students. As previously reported within the Independent, the exhibit includes a far reaching range of new topics involving art, technology and their intersection with everyday life, including Margot Lovejoy’s Confess, a piece built around confessions people have called into a hotline set up by Lovejoy. A booth located at the back of the display allows visitors to leave their own confessions, after which their voices are disguised and added to the project.

Along with the extended hours of the museum, the night will include live music from Joe Izzo’s Band, Weird Korea, Casey Chandler, G Scott Corey and more. The night also includes live performances by Purchase college students. Guests are asked to confess something and share it by hanging it on a clothesline in the gallery. Everyone who confesses something will be added to a drawing to win one of two prizes in the museum gift shop. The Art Club will also be providing an “exquisite corpse” book (an ongoing cooperative collage) that visitors are welcome to add to.

Neu Media Confessions is presented on Wednesday, May 6 from 4-8 pm.
~Alicia Miller

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