Nina Katchadourian has created an audio tour called "Dust Gathering," a walk-through of not only different pieces at the MoMA, but their dust make-up as well.
Katchadourian's first major project with the MoMA is a part of the museum's Artist Experiment Program, a collaboration between artists and educators on public programming.
Katchadourian discusses different types of dust mites, and how they came to meet different paintings and sculptures. “There is a false sense that art has to be about the big stuff, when actually every artwork is in some way a thinking exercise — mental, aesthetic, philosophical or whatever kind of gym the artist is putting you in to exercise your imagination.”. In the tour, she is focusing on this thinking exercise while addressing arts most minuscule details as she interviews different expert in order to shine light on the joys of caring and handling art.
She also discusses her best-known work "Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style" a series of her own selfies she's taken in airplane bathrooms posing with whatever objects are at hand. “I hate the words ‘quirky’ and ‘whimsical’ applied to me and my work,” she said according to the New York Times. “Joy, wonder, play, humor? All good. But I am not just making little jokes.” Despite this sense of humor, Katchadourian is still very serious about art and art education as seen in her latest work with the MoMA.
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