Let’s hear it!
Alexandra Grant’s video suite A.D.D.G. now on display at the
Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw
Fryderyk Chopin Museum
Pałac Gnińskich, Okólnik 1, 00-368, Warsaw, Poland
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Opening Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday, 10 AM – 6 PM
Exhibition runs through December 31, 2025
Alexandra Grant studio and the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw are pleased to announce the presentation of A.D.D.G.—a rarely shown video suite by Alexandra Grant.
Originally created in 2008, A.D.D.G. (short for aux dehors des guillemets, or “outside of the quotation marks”) is a suite of five HD video works produced during and after Alexandra Grant’s first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles, curated by Alma Ruiz. This marks only the second time the full series has been shown publicly, following its debut at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles.
The five videos—Let’s, Ladder to Heaven, conspirar, nimbus, and babel—each range from 2 to 4 minutes in length and blend text, sound, and moving image. The works are deeply rooted in Alexandra Grant’s collaboration with writer Michael Joyce, a pioneer of hypertext fiction, as well as inspired by Hélène Cixous, the French writer, playwright, and literary critic.
Developed in partnership with Pig Iron Theatre Company and edited by Stephen Reedy, A.D.D.G. is a sonic and visual exploration that repurposes voice recordings, Joyce’s texts, and Grant’s sculptures and paintings into new, poetic forms.
Curator of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum: Dr. Seweryn Kuter
Curator of the display: Maria Kominek-Karolak
Alexandra Grant
A.D.D.G., 2008
Suite of 5 HD videos
Let’s 4 minutes 7 seconds;
Ladder to Heaven 2 minutes 26 seconds;
conspirar 2 minutes 2 seconds;
nimbus 4 minutes 14 seconds;
babel 2 minutes 36 seconds
After texts (“Ladders,” “He occupying the space of,” “Conspire,” “Nimbus,” and “Was”) by Michael Joyce
Sound: Dan Rothenberg, Sean Mattio, Stephen Reedy, Alexandra Grant
Voices: Michael Joyce, Alexandra Grant, James Sugg, Dito Van Reigersberg, Sarah Doherty, Aysan Celik, Mary McCool
Images: Alexandra Grant, Stephen Reedy, Greg Harrison
Edited by: Stephen Reedy, Alexandra Grant
Images above: Alexandra Grant Ladder to Heaven, conspirar, nimbus, and babel. Video screenshots, part of the A.D.D.G. video suite, 2008.
