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Scores for the Museum Visitor (2026)
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Maia Chao's Biennial performance, which takes place in the seventh-floor collection exhibition "Untitled" (America), is based on the choreography of how viewers encounter art and move through museums. The instructions on the scores displayed here are an invitation to try some of the experiments Chao used while rehearsing her performance. Viewers may or may not notice the resulting "micro-performances" of others in the gallery.
Press
→ "Four Philadelphia artists are a part of this year’s Whitney Biennial" The Philadelphia Inquirer
→ "Maia Chao Performs the Museum" Hyperallergic
→ "Maia Chao, Art World Anthropologist Making Whitney Biennial Debut" Art in America
→ "Artists Maia Chao’s Anthropological Performances" The Amp
→ "For the Whitney Biennial, Maia Chao Turns the Museum Visit into the Subject" Cultbytes
→ "Maia Chao: How We Move" United States Artists
These scores were developed based on devising workshops with choreographer Lena Engelstein, and performers Miguel Alejandro Castillo Le Maitre, Marin Day, Ben Hard, Ampersand Paris, Chloe Engel, Nate Repasz, Spencer Claus, Isa Spector, Neva Guido, Miles Toth, Nora Raine Thompson.
