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...technological, social or environmental developments." A mouthful, but Ballard has earned every word of it. In 20 novels and 20 story collections over his half-century as a writer, he has created an anti-utopian gulag of ostensibly placid communities - island resorts, luxury apartment towers, high-tech research parks - where civility deteriorates and darkness rises. In Kingdom Come, his latest and perhaps most unsettling work yet, Ballard exposes a particularly nasty cesspool of social pathology: the shopping mall. First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best known for Empire of the Sun, a surprisingly sunny best seller based...
...Quartet, and the Unwrapped All-Stars with Dennis Nelson are just a few of the fifteen acts that will perform on three outdoor stages. At press time, www.weather.com reported blue skies, so no excuses to not get moving and get cultured. To get there: Take the Red Line to Park Street. Take the E. car of the Green Line to the Symphony Stop, walk up Mass. Ave to the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Columbus Ave. 4. Friday, September 29, 2006 5-7 p.m. Saturday 30th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Things aren’t really fun unless...
...work is mainly the result of an intense collaborative process with artists, architects, designers and musicians. His most ambitious collaboration, A Journey That Wasn't, combines documentary-style film footage of his 2005 voyage to Antarctica, an operatic translation of the trip set in New York City's Central Park, a sculpture of an island discovered on the venture, a musical score based on that island's topography - and an animatronic penguin. All this is Huyghe's attempt to produce a dark, cold, strange "equivalent" of his Antarctic "elsewhere." The result is very different from your basic travel documentary, which...
...Arts Décoratifs, his work has centered around the idea of "image." By that, he doesn't mean simply photographs, posters or films, though lots of Hollywood examples turn up in his conversation. "Image is imaginary," he says, "right?" And to whom does the image belong? Celebration Park opens with a giant neon sculpture saying, "I do not own Tate Modern or the Death Star." Other neon signs, all beginning with the words "I do not own," follow, disavowing possession of such cultural icons as Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and John Cage's noteless musical composition...
...gave her voice to Disney's animated princess, "I was Snow White ... it's my voice, but it doesn't belong to me anymore." Of course, Huyghe's work is not to everyone's taste. France's Le Monde newspaper, rarely afraid to address complexity, conceded that his "Celebration Park" defied all definition. That's fine with Huyghe. "We all play the binary," he says, referring to the easy recourse of seeing things as black or white. "But we know that in life, such simplicity does not exist." Nor, fortunately, does it exist in the work of Pierre Huyghe...