Daniel Greenberg and Troy Hoffman (Homepage Project)

From The Museum of Human Achievement


Event Info
Date start 01.15.17
Date end 02.05.17
Start Time 12am
Format
Medium
Location
Admission Free


Welcome to my Homepage presents Daniel Greenberg and Troy Hoffman, a self-titled project by Daniel Greenberg and Troy Hoffman.

This project was completed when Welcome to my Homepage was formerly known as ‘’’Welcome to my Guest Room’’’.

Project Description

Their residency includes daily interventions into normative terminology and culturally loaded imagery via collaged webpages of animations, found material, screen shots, etc. Viewers are invited to explore their collaborative process as the series of pages reveal, unravel, and disguise their own histories.

Artist Bios

Daniel Greenberg & Troy Hoffman are collaborators who met at The Cranbrook Academy of Art. Their first show together, at the Detroit Museum of New Art, was called Cut Out Your Mother’s Eyes. The show was a meditation on a pedagogical exercise offered by Art Historian Tom Cummins, which states, if you are skeptical of the relationship of an image and what it represents, take a photograph of your mother and cut out the eyes. The good son or daughter would not be able to do it. However, through a queer perspective there is an implicit undoing of a normative notion between right and wrong, good and bad. While Hoffman’s works are a collision of bestial and uncanny imagery, Greenberg’s works are often ephemeral, and naturally fade and disintegrate over-time. A second layer in both artists’ practice is purely linguistic, working from images that are more commonly read then seen. Images with pre-existing cultural implications are approached sideways rather than straight on as a means to address queer sexuality, which requires a rethinking of normative terminology.

Viewing Details

On view online (desktop only) at welcometomyhomepage.net.