Posts Tagged ‘prospect.1’
Paul Villinski’s Emergency Response Studio is a sustainable, aesthetic trailer designed to be a mobile artist’s studio (opening today at Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, TX). In many ways, it is the opposite of the actual FEMA trailer seen in the post-Katrina Gulf states: in place of a toxic, claustrophobic substitute for a home is a [...]
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Tags: architecture, ballroom marfa, critique of judgement, emergency response studio, FEMA, installation, kant, new orleans, new orleans museum of art, paul villinski, prospect.1, sculpture, trailer, use, useless
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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Tags: artforum, biennial, contemporary art, context, engagement, function, ghada amer, installation, jose damasceno, new orleans, prospect.1, robin rhodes
Benjamin Zeitlin’s Glory at Sea is a short film that tells the story of a rescue effort to save the drowned victims of Hurricane Katrina (featured in Wholphin 7). To execute this mission, a cast of nameless characters create a boat from a pile of their remaining possessions: a bathtub, a rust-colored car without wheels, [...]
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Tags: american, art history, benjamin zeitlin, biennial, gericault, glory at sea, history, hurricane katrina, kara walker, new orleans, prospect.1, the raft of the medusa, wholphin
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