Word: perspex
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There are a few worthwhile things in "Aperto 93." One is The World Flag Ant Farm, by the Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi. Yanagi's conceit, a pretty good one, was to make scores of replicas of national flags in colored sand, behind Perspex. These are linked by tubes and populated by a colony of ants, which scurry to and fro between the flags bearing grains of sand in their mandibles. Over time the flags become illegible through migration and mixture; Yanagi's piece has the same concision and elegance as Haacke's in the German pavilion...