High Quality, and Quantity: Here Are the 376 Artists Participating in the 2012 Brucennial at www.popupspaceny.com

This Wednesday the artist collective the Bruce High Quality Foundation will stage “Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer.,” the next edition of the Brucennial, its sometimes-annual biennial, at 159 Bleecker Street. “Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer.” will feature 376 artists, up from the last edition’s 322. The full list is available below and new participants range from the very emerging to the super-established, with Damien Hirst and Jean-Michel Basquiat making appearances, along with a few enlightened additions that fall somewhere in-between, like Richard Prince.

“The slogan of the Brucennial is about embracing maximalism for the sake of creating a giant, rambunctious community of artists,” the organization wrote in an email, its standard method of communication. “The show is really a celebration of people more than an exhibition.”

Though “Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer.” opens just one day before the Whitney Biennial, few comparisons should be made between the two events. Just for starters, participation in the Brucennial, which began in 2008, and then had editions in both 2009 and 2010, is guaranteed for all attendees of the organization’s free classes at the Bruce High Quality Foundation University.

“The Brucennial happens every two years, or really, you know, whenever we feel like it, and it’s a moment of celebration of the history of the people—of the reason why the people exist, of the nature of the people,” reads a quote about the 2010 edition attributed on the BHQF website to Francesco Bonami.

This weekend, as part of the Brucennial, the organization will stage a musical titled Animal Farmthat envisions a fictional battle between the BHQFU and its trustees (chickens), who, like the real-life trustees of the Cooper Union, are considering charging tuition.

The complete list of participants is available below.

Acheson, Peter
Ahles, Ben
Albrigo, Daniel
Alexander, Willie
Alie, Matt
Allmeyer, Roland
Aluf, Tomer
Arganaraz, Matias
Arkin, Elliott
Arunanondchai, Korakrit
Assiff, Michael
Atema, Adriana
Bainbridge, Dan
Baldwin, Malado
Balgley, Danny
Banach, Joan
Bartone, Lauren
Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Jean-Michel & Warhol, Andy
Beck, Jo
Behl, Z
Behnke, Paul
Benavente, Diego
Benitez, Francisca
Berinstein, Sofia
Bernstein, David
Berran, Patrick
Bertholf, Chris
Bevilacqua, Michael
Bianca, Sforni
Bina, Dan
Boatright, Benjamin
Boffo, Jeffrey
Bogia, Chris
Bonafede, John
Borm, Marlous
Bornstein, Sam
Bors, Chris
Bowes, Becket
Bradford, Katherine
Bradley, Nelson
Brian, Philip
Brito, Miguel
Brittingham, James
Brooks, David
Brown, Brian
Brown, Ryan
Browning, Rachael
Bruder, Zachary
Buentello, Gabriel
Buffon, Nicholas
Burkhart, Kathe
Burton, Calvin
Calvert, Stephanie
Campbell, Victoria
Capone, Francesca
Carney, Milo
Carolan, Micaela
Carrington, Blake
Carter, Geoff
Casper, Michael & Ewen-Campen, Ben
Casso, Alex
Chamberlain, Skye
Chatterson, Kris
Chernozatonskaya, Shura
Chiarello, Michael
Coleman, Tommy
Collins, Tryn
Como, Vincent
Condo, George
Copeland, Ron
Coppola, Jeri
Cowan, Richard
Crawford, Rah
Cross,Andy
Cueva, Nicholas
Cuzner, Lars
DADDY
Dalzen, Erik
Dash, N.
Davidsdottir, Elisabet
Davis,Damien
Davis, Gerri
Davis, Max
Degen, Benjamin
Delgado, Carlos
Demos, Peter
Dennison, Violet
Derenne, Charles
DiFeo, Michael
Dixon, Hariet
Dixon, Leah
Dolle, Coco
Dorrance, Mark
Douglas, Eliza
Doyka, Jaki
Doyle, Hilary
Doyle, Patrick
Eddy, Austin
Elliott, Jonathan
Emerson-Bell, Jonah
Enxuto, João
Etre, Nick
Evan, Tom
Exley, Emma
Farmiga, Adriana
Faux, Sarah
Fertman, Eric
Fils-Aime, James
Fitzgerald, Alana
Forman, Zaria
Frank, Joey
Frank, John Aaron
Frantz, Laura
Frazier, Daniele
Frazier, Simone
Fruin, Tom
Fuller, Daniel
Gabriel, Phillip
Gaetano, Nick
Galyon, Max
Gartrell, Amy
Gatton, Christopher
Gauld, John Gordon
Giannini, Anthony
Gillen, Oto
Gillispie, James
The Glorious Way
Goldfeder, Artemisha
Goodman, Ivan
Goodman, Scott
Grabowski, J
Graham, Andrew
Granados, Kathleen
Grayson, Kathy
Greenesmith, Emerson
Greenwald, Eliot
Hahn, Heidi
Haldrup, Erin
Hamilton, Graham
Haring, Keith
Hathaway, Halsey
Hauptman, Eugenia
Hayes, Rachel
Haynes, Narendra
Henkel, Calle & Pitegoff, Max
Hess, Clara Chapin
Hirsch, Elizabeth
Hirst, Damien
Hodgkin, Carter
Hoffmeister Peter J
Hollars, Sarah
Holmes, Nicholas
Horn, Rebecca Watson
Hovsepian, Sheree
Howard, Aliza Stone
Howard, Joe
Hubble, Brian
Idea, Jaime
Imamura, Lena
Ioannidou, Ketta
Ionescu, Serban
Johnson, Michael
Jones, Bryan
Jones, Erin
Jones, Benjamin A.
Jurado, Cecilia
Kaplan, Ed
Karlin, David
Kelley, Mike
Kenney, Mike
Kenny, Devin
Keogh, Sam
Kerr, Kathryn
Kessler, Bradford
Khan, Fawad
King, Benjamin
Kishi-Andersen, Maya
Kizu-Blair, Alison
Knight, Nicholas
Knopke, Todd
Knutson, Erin
Kobayashi, Osamu
Kost, Jeremy
Krasner, Joshua
Krauss, Gretchen
Krupka, Travis
Krystosek, Jolynn
Kusov, Alan
Kyle, Devin
Lafia, Marc
Lanza, Jacob
Laracuente, Andres
Latev Snejina
Laughner, Jack
Lawrence, Scott
Lee, Jaeeun
Lendvay, Elisa
Leponte, Sue
Letar, Denis
Librizzi, Nemo
Linder, Sam
Lips, Kevin
Little, Carlos
Loven, Sven
Lukas, Michael
Lupiani, Alan
MacGregor, Dean
MacKenize, Chris
MacQueen, Caitlin
Mais, Steven
Manford, JJ
Mansfield, Tolland
Marco, Mitchell
Marcus, Rose
Marquis, Jules
Martin, Thomas
Martirosian, Emil & Shoshensky, Nikita
Masnyj, Yuri
Maxon, Carey
May, Ashley
McKinley, Mollie
McNeil, Dale
Meagher, Patrick
Mellin, Haley
Mendelsohn, John
Mesenbourg, Bryan
Messer, Sam
Metoyer, Angelbert
Micarelli, Leonardo
Miller, Max
Mister, Andy
Moczarski, Melanie
Monaghan, Eamon
Monaghan, Rory
Monaghan, Keegan
Mooney, Craig
Moosbrugger, Michael
Morris, Phoebe
Moseley, Jane
Mullen, Bridget
Nadeau, Rob
Naess, Sophy
Nanney, Gregory
Nasatir, Willa
Newbegin, Katherine
Newman, Daniel
Oakes, Ryan & Trevor
Oh, Daniel
Okuyama, Midori
Ort, David
Ousseinov, Aga
Palma, Mónica
Pane, Kate
Parcher, Nicole
Park, Peter
Patterson, Matisse
Patterson, Grear
Payne, Sam
Pellizzi, G.T.
Pinney, Rainger
Pinto, Eric
Pisarro-Grant, Allie
Placido, Javier
Poe, Nick
Potter, Ada
Powell, Shawn
Powers, James
Prince, Richard
Provosty, Nathlie
Pruter, Garrett
Raihl, Cassie
Rawe, Hannah
Razza, Cristina
Rearick, Anne
Rebet, Christine
Reisinger, Reka
Rembert, Cecelia
Revoir, Grayson
Reyle, Anselm
Ripley, Christin
Roberts, Allison Sloan
Roesing, David Battle
Rogers, Les
Romaniello, Vincent
Rosa, Chris
Rosen, Ned
Rosen, Aya
Rosenblum, Theo
Rosenblum, Theo & Seltzer, Chelsea
Rossin, Rachel
Rowland, Anne
Rubcic, Ariana
Ruthner, Alex
Ryjak, Irina
Sabba, Charles
Sachs, Tom
Sall, Eric
Salle, David
Saltarrelli, Mason
Sato, Saki
Scherr, Elana
Schiff, Clayton
Schmid, Anita
Schmidt, Aurel
Schwarz, Ludwig
Scourtos, Michelle
Seiden, Lauren
Seltzer, Chelsea
Severns, Hayley
Shea, Michael
Shepherd, Nathalie
Sherman, Cindy
Sherry, David Benjamin
Shields, Taylor
Shook, Natalie
Silver, Larry
Singleton, Niki
Smith, Bruno
Smith, Chris
Smith, Joshua
Smith, Mariana
Smith, Paul
Smith, Ray
Snow, Max
Snow, Caroline
Soliven, Elisa
Sorrentino, Paul
Spencer, George
St. John, Michael
Stafford, Janet
Steck, Daniel
Steiner, Alfred
Stewart, Wilt
Stone, Janos
Strriffolino, Peter
Sullivan, Daniel
Swords, Deirdre
Swordy, Eleanor
Swoyer, Kenneth
Taccetti, Santiago
Taurerewa, Lorene
Taylor, Raphael
Thomas, Andrew
Tive, Bless
Tobia, Jaclyn
Tone, Adrian
Tuomala, Stephen
Turner, Emily
Ulfig, Weston
Vedder, Linnea
Vera, Lucia
Veszi, Tamas
Vidich, Arturo
Vitale, Marianne
Walzer, Sarah
Warshafsky, Beth
Weaver, Jana
Weber, Nick
Weber, Christian
Weist, Julia
Wells, Sterling
Wessmann, Erica
White, Sophie
White, Austin
White, Kylie
Whitney Barnes, Julia
Wittenberg, Nicole
Woodward, Revel
Wuensch, Stephen
Yackulic, Will
Yektai, Darius
Yellin, Dustin
Zhu, Ye Qin
Zilhaver, Sara
Zuckerman, Eva

“We expect a handful more before the opening,” the organization wrote in an email detailing the list, “but this should do. xo BHQF.” The show runs until April 20.
by: Dan Duray