Mungo Thomson

Mungo Thomson's wide-ranging, multi-media work approaches mass culture and everyday perceptual experience through a lens of deep time and cosmic scale, implicating the spaces of production and exhibition in ever-widening extrapolations. He has convened an orchestral ensemble to perform a score transcribed from the chirping of crickets, persuaded museums to let their incoming mail pile up unopened in the galleries for the run of an exhibition, and replaced the coat-hangers in the Whitney Museum's coat check with custom-made hangers modeled on orchestral triangles, transforming it into an enormous musical instrument. Spanning his entire oeuvre, this first comprehensive monograph focuses in particular on the artist's three main series that embody his exploration of popular culture and everyday objects to question what we most take for granted, or fail to notice. Includes a conversation with Laura Owens.