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that is anything but phantom-like. But Gioni sees no conﬂ ict between his mo e f ee fo m exhibitions and the wo k he does at the museum. “The New Museum is fa f om institutional, and it is still ve y young, so it is able to wo k and change at a much faste speed,” explains Gioni, “it is in a constant state of being and ethinking itself. I always think of it as a st ange cont ol towe – captu ing signals and emitting systems,” he adds, “it is a place to do things, and to challenge the deﬁ nition of a museum.” That deﬁ nition will be challenged in the upcoming t iennial less by the physical space and mo e by the actual content. “People a e against [t iennials] because of the fo mat – but it depends on what you do with them,” Gioni says. “What we a e t ying to do is to use the tool of the exhibition to captu e a gene ation that has not yet been ep esented in contempo a y a t.” Wo king with fellow cu ato s Lau en Co nell and Lau a Hauptman, the ﬁ st thing that they’ve done is make use of the building’s “antenna” quality to powe human sea ch engines. “We a e elying on f iends, w ite s, and people all ove the wo ld to ale t us of a t in places we don’t know that much about, like f ica o South me ica.” These inte national collabo ato s will then be invited to sha e thei ﬁ ndings in public p og ams du ing the exhibition and in an accompanying catalogue that will se ve as a “Facebook” guide of thei ﬁ ndings. Gioni feels that people will be su p ised by what has come out of this so-called gene ation of Millenials, “they have been cannibalized in eve y ﬁeld and we o en think of them as consume s, not p oduce s – we only study thei p oducing habits as an excuse to sell them something.” F aming this debate about whe e Gene ation has come f om and whe e they a e going will be integ al to the t iennial. “The e is one aspect of the gene ation that totally focuses on mode n technology, but the e is mo e complex nostalgia in thei elationship with the past that is quite inte esting.” Wo king on the t iennial also comes at an inte esting time fo Gionni, who at age 4 has just missed the age limit fo the exhibition (the a tists featu ed in “ ounge Than Jesus” a e unde ). “When I was , I was at the pinnacle of my ca ee , but I don’t know what will come next. I think it’s healthy to keep one foot in two shoes – to be able to move in two diﬀe ent places,” he says. Fo him that means hanging on a little bit fo the past: “I am not on Facebook – I can’t have anothe tool of communication”, he has said, but making su e that he is connected to the p esent: “I do have th ee cell phones.” But ega dless of his position on his futu e, he still looks to his past as an edito and emembe s that sometimes with w iting, less is mo e. “the e is a iddish saying ‘people a e bo n with a ce tain numbe of wo ds, and when you use them up you have said enough’ it is impo tant to edit things out, to edit you life, and to sometimes be silent.” Be Silent.

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