Attendant is an ongoing participatory art project involving people in service positions at institutions: museum guards, administrative staff, and attendants of all kinds. 

It's a collaboration with institutions and the people who attend to them, culminating in short performative events and the resulting installations, around the country.

The attendant volunteers to observe instances of a fleeting event personal to them, and to place a marker of some kind, for each instance he or she observes.

I'm interested in the question, If we're in the same place at the same time, are we having the same experience? Also, in seeing what happens when expected roles and behaviors related to making, presenting and attending to artwork, are changed up for a set interval of time.



Participating Institutions and Individuals:

Jan 30th 2012:
Executive MBA Program, Sloan School of MIT
     Kim Andrew Cowperthwaite, Administrator
     [featured in image above]

Feb 12 2012:
Currier Museum of Art
  Front Desk:
     Chelcie George, Visitor Services Representative

  Volunteer Docents:
     Jean McGiffin, Barbara Shepler, Nancy Stewart, Kim Tyndall


and counting....