Word: ica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PERHAPS because of the ICA's somewhat mottled past, that the efforts of Ross this year to establish performance/installation art and video art displays have made such a splash in Boston art circles. Originally a video artist himself. Ross knows such well-known performance artists as Laurie Anderson. He has brought a totally different kind of background to his job at the ICA, and this first year has been one of new directions for the museum...
...David Ross is bringing more of the theatrical to the ICA, more performance art, the whole video situation. I expect the ICA will be at the forefront among purveyors of video art in this country. You'll be able to say you saw it at the ICA," says Peter Sellars '80, who along with graphic artist Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, and dancer Bonnie Zimmering '81, recently mounted the highly-acclaimed "Sudden Difficulties," a performance art installation at the ICA...
...dialectic progression in art. There is no single monolithic avant-garde. If there's a cutting edge in art, it's like a round razor--it cuts in all directions at once." Besides its spectacular "Art and Dance" performance series, and the popular series of video screenings, the ICA this year has offered several exhibitions of purely visual, stationary works of art as well, including an exhibition of pastels by Lucas Samaras, and the recent showing of Christopher Wilmarth's "Breath," a collection of blown glass, steel sculpture and works on paper, created in response to seven poems by Stephane...
...following this pattern, the ICA represents a very different philosophy from that which guides traditional art institutions like the Museum of Fine Arts. While both institutions are concerned primarily with displaying art and educating the public, the ICA shows only contemporary works, whereas institutions like the MFA, obviously, have displays from all periods. A natural divergence results from this philosophical division. Institutions like the MFA are museums, they collect art and so take on the responsibilities of investigating, maintaining and educating the public about the works in their collections. The ICA, concerned as it is with...
...Ross is comfortable with the ICA's non-traditional focus. "I received a letter from a 10-year-old girl," he says, "and she wrote. 'Your museum is junky. Why can't it be like other museums?' I'd tell her it's not a museum, but semantics are of no interest to a little girl. It's a problem we have with people of all ages. Some people who come in are enraptured by the works, others are turned off, they find it too 'out' for their tastes...