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These Objects are Loved
“Vortexhibition Polyphonica” is an intimidating exhibition title. A vortex is a swirling mass, coming from the Latin vertere, meaning “to turn.” A polyphony is a vocal texture derived from multiple independent voices. How this could be applied to an exhibition was perplexing. It sounded like it could be a psychedelic journey of sorts (at least [...]
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The Things that Didn’t Work
i. 9th Floor by Robin Rhodes
ii. Happily Ever After by Ghada Amer
iii. Tabula Rasa by Jose Damasceno
i. I knew what was behind the blue walls of the freestanding public restroom situated in an empty field– New Orleans’s Times-Picayune included a brief mention of it in their coverage of Prospect.1. When I read the write up, [...]
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Images in Search of a Narrative
Jeremy Shaw’s 7 Minutes is an arresting work of video art. Currently in the loop of 25 videos that comprise Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest in SAM’s Ketcham Forum Gallery, I pass the installation daily when moving between my cube and the museum galleries. I also passed it daily for a period of time [...]
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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is typically the first place I visit while in San Francisco. Small to mid-sized contemporary arts institutions often struggle to become part of their communities for myriad reasons. Some problems stem from preconceptions of Modern and Contemporary art and the inacessibility associated with these periods, which [...]
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The Forty Part Motet (A Reworking of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui, by Thomas Tallis) creates a stunning fourteen minutes of interdependence between music and visual art. Although the work is frequently installed in a cathedral-like setting, I found its simpler placement at TAM, in a white-cube room residing behind a single, burgundy wall, [...]
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1. The Forty Part Motet by Janet Cardiff at the Tacoma Art Museum (opened last week).
Image: Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet, by Janet Cardiff (A Re-working of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui 1573, by Thomas Tallis). 40 loudspeakers mounted on stands, placed in an oval, amplifiers, and playback computer, 14 minute loop with 11 [...]
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Dangerous Commodity
Playing with the concept of commodity in art can undoubtedly be a dangerous endeavor. Having a personal affinity for classical theory, I frequently find myself coming back to Kant’s contention in his Critique of Judgement that art should be “useless.” I understand this more in the sense that the artistic design on [...]
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