Works in Place
LIZ SAYS: My, my, what a big white tub it looks like! The museum of contemporary art is one piece of architecture that alienates the person on the street. It even dwarfs the Richard Serra giant rusty sheets of metal, they are at least 50 feet tall, made puny by the giant white tub. It looks like a great thing from far away, but the closer one gets to it, the further away one seems. Its like a tub floating on a black glass base, so when I was close it it, I kept wanting to look up. When in it, it was the typical white walled museum. But, it was acoustically perfect for the video art. Each exhibit was separated so thoroughly, that there was no bleed through from the other exhibits. I found a several of the videos particularly fascinating and I think a major contributing factor was that the experience was so thoroughly isolated.
We entered one room to find a young guy in traffic. He just sort of stood there, like he was posing in the mirror, letting us admire his everything, while the traffic flowed around and past, at first him, then us.
Another piece showed the top of a man’s head. The man was laying down and talking about an experience that had resulting in an injury but every time he got to just the place where we might figure out how he got the scar on his head, the scar that we were staring at, he would start to talk about how he felt and we were sucked even further into the tale. The guy was a pretty good story teller.
A couple of pieces just had wickedly cool machines. The films had to have been an after thought because the projectors themselves were fascinating.
The film was a long strip piling inside the green bubble. It was one long continuous loop!
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