Artists Space

Project:
ERAWA - ERA WAS

April 19 – May 19, 1990

An installation by Ralph Paquin and Ann Stoddard.
Organized by Dana Friis-Hansen, MIT List Visual Arts Center

A large, hollow paper mache head is seen from below in a black and white photograph. The head is held up by a metal armature and scaffold.
Ralph Paquin and Ann Stoddard, ERAWA - ERA WAS, 1990. Installation view, Artists Space, 1990. [A large, hollow paper mache head is seen from below in a black and white photograph. The head is held up by a metal armature and scaffold.]

ERAWA - ERA WAS is a collaborative multi-media installation of phantasmagoric "tableau vivants" introducing four characters of the enigmatic "Modern Man" struggling to adapt in an everlasting world of technology, information saturation and natural phenomena.

ERAWA - ERA WAS Press Release

ERAWA - ERA WAS Postcard

ERAWA - ERA WAS Pamphlet Cover

Artists Space programs are made possible by: the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; AT&T Foundation, Inc., The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion, The Bohen Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Horace w. Goldsmith Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation, Inc., The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, The Menemsha Fund, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Betty Parsons Foundation, The Reed Foundation, Inc., The Rockefeller Foundation, The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; American Express Company, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Equitable Real Estate Group, Inc., General Atlantic Corporation, R.H. Macy and Company, Inc., Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and U.S. Trust Company of New York; as well as Artwatch, Galleries in Support of Artists Space, Members and numerous Friends.

Additional funding for Artists Space activities has been provided by: Art Dealers Association of America, Inc., Louis A. Bradbury Fund, The Penny McCall Foundation, Motherwell Foundation, Inc., The Pace Gallery, and Payson Enterprises, Inc., among others.

Artists Space is a member of the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO) and the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC).

    A large paper-maché head lays face-up on a metal scaffolding. Above it, green cursive text reads,
    Ralph Paquin and Ann Stoddard, ERAWA - ERA WAS, 1990. Installation view, Artists Space, 1990. [A large paper-maché head lays face-up on a metal scaffolding. Above it, green cursive text reads, "ring is worn out by constant use."]