Josh Duensing & Anais Daly P

Title: The Art Historical Miniature Golf Course

Location: Brooklyn Rooftops

Our concept originates in the comedy and significance of Marcel Duchamp's addition of the Urinal into the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibition. From that point artistic practice and conversion has taken certain fragmented turns and separations throughout the 1900's. Our project will consist of a miniature golf course situated on the rooftops of multiple Brooklyn buildings. Each hole of the miniature golf course will increase in complexity, addressing issues of structure along with artistic reference. The project is expected and hopes to have a level of humor that perseveres along with the entertainment aspect of the game. Without trying to teach art historical iconic emblems, we wish to enact a situation that applies a matrix to the conversation and how it is represented.

Josh Duensing lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University and is "attracted to large construction equipment, free stuff on the side of the street, underground passageways, "modern architecture", temporary architecture i.e. living huts/Shanty towns and models of anything." He has exhibited at the Atlanta College Of Art Gallery and Moca Ga. He has been in a number of group shows, including: Pulse Point house show in Boston, You Can't Kill My Dream, But My Dream Can Kill You open Studios in Mission Hill, Aki exchange student show in Enschede NL, and Pluto Gallery Enschede NL. Josh Duensing is currently designing a playground for the University of Auburn Rural Studio Program in Akron Alabama.

Anais Daly lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She attended both the Massachusetts School of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She holds a BFA from Tufts and SMFA. She currently works in the Director's office at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. She not only works on Exhibition management for the foundation but also assists the director in numerous special projects around the world, including the signing of the new Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in the United Emirates. As the founder of Gallery 121 in Beacon Hill in Boston, she curated one exhibition a month for two years. In her artistic practice she has taken part in many group shows including "Nu-Nu" in Boston, "The House; last exhibition before demolition" in Miami, "You can't Kill my Dream, But My Dream Can Kill You" open studio's in Mission Hill, and most recently performing at the Redemption Center in Brooklyn (Dream Sequence One).