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Almost every art has its technology. Painting is an ancient mud process. Welded-steel sculpture required the invention of the welding torch. Janet Cardiff's breakthrough work required--the Walkman. Ten years ago, while thinking about a new artwork, she was walking through a cemetery in the Canadian town of Banff, reading into a tape recorder the names she found on old gravestones. At one point, she rewound the tape, then replayed it to find where she had left off. That is how she first had the disorienting experience of hearing herself describe a walk while she was still...
Remember--in art, sometimes, weird is good. (Words to that effect must have gone through Georges Braque's mind as he found his way into Cubism.) From that lucky accident, Cardiff got the idea for an artwork that would be a kind of surreal tour through the woods, one in which her stream-of-consciousness monologue would course idly through the trees. She offered cassettes to friends, who could play the tapes on a Walkman while they followed her path on a map. As she free associated and dreamed out loud, the trusty woods would be unsteadied...
...known to exist. Omar avoids the camera?not because of vanity (he is half blind, having lost the use of one eye in combat in the 1980s) nor because he wants to hide in the shadows. It's because Islam proscribes representative artwork, and Omar includes photographs in that concept. Religion is Omar's obsessive core, as I learned in my many interviews with him in Kandahar, the Taliban's hometown and Omar's heavily guarded lair. He doesn't even like his title of mullah, which means "giver of knowledge." Having been yanked out of the seminary to fight...
...well, an art. The former part of this formula, the technical part, can be taught, while the latter cannot. Unfortunately for all those involved, the artists contributing KidsArt fail to take this distinction into account. They offer technically simple (at times absurdly minimalist) examples of highly philosophically charged artwork. The messages are complex and multifarious, and the technique almost nonexistent...
...still looking for help on the artwork. Up until the day the installation is made, the Adams Squash courts will be occupied every Tuesday and Thursday from 4pm to 9pm by RA and their student collaborators. When the artwork is hung, it will dominate the front of the Holyoke Center, catching anyone’s eye who passes by. The approaching date is exciting to Bastian. “I’ve been living and breathing the project for the last several months, and it’s great to see it finally coming together...