2021 Exhibition
4. Get Big
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Artist Information
Get Big will be an interactive installation that simulates a music video in real time. Artist Tiff Massey creates an environment that utilizes elements of design, technology and hip-hop, highlighting her current investigations in adornment, while simultaneously subverting the focus from object to participant by documenting a moment of confidence or narcissism.
For Get Big 1.0, Massey makes an immersive music video featuring her jewelry store and her own sculptural artworks. Viewers will be invited to walk into the space and once the participant walks in, the beat drops, the music starts, the cameras are activated, and the viewer is projected onto the two, thirteen-foot-long LED screens bookending the space. They become the artwork.
What happens when the viewer becomes adorned and how does the environment facilitate that transition from the unadorned to the adorned? How does the context and placement of an object influence an individual’s perception of self? The exhibit first seduces the viewer, creating a desire to dance, strut, and act out.
Motion Graphics by Demario Dotson.
Music by Geno XO, Maestro Williams and Dez Andres.
Please note, the artist is recording interactions for use in future artworks. By entering you are consenting to being recorded. Please do not enter if you do not wish to be recorded.
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Tiff Massey
Artist Tiff Massey’s oeuvre is expressed in mediums as varied as metal, fiber, wood, and performance and in scales as varied as monumental sculpture, wearable adornment, and immersive installation. The Detroit artist earned an MFA in metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and her work, despite its wide range, remains informed by jewelry—drawing from its cultural history, processes, techniques, and materials. Massey’s work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues including the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston, Craft in America in Los Angeles, Library Street Collective in Detroit, and Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
She is the recipient of the prestigious Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship; the two- time winner of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Michigan Chronicle’s 40 under 40 Award; the Best Time-Based Performance at SiteLab during Art Prize in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist-Grant; and most recently the United States Artists Fellow 2021. Massey has also participated in international residencies including the Red Bull Arts Residency in Detroit, Ideas City hosted by The New Museum of New York.
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