Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Avery's installation alters the disease to the point of ominous abstraction. A traditional sterile hospital bed and two metal chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...
...addition to integrating the clinic into the museum physically, Avery attempts to conceptually integrate his structure by modeling his clinic on the architectural structures in the museum's surrounding art-works -- in this case the architectural prints featured in the "New York/Rome" exhibit. The roof of the clinic structure, for example, is modeled on the temple depicted in a 17th century print by Gerard Audran of the Triumphal Entry of Constantine into Rome.. By merging his installation into the museum's high-brow art works, Avery intends to enshrine the clinic. He wants to recreate the medical world within...
...ugly building in the industrial outskirts of Montreal," Leaf says. "Everything was under one roof--cameramen, anything for sound, the laboratory that produced my films, all the editing, all the distribution...
...That's the one where you go, "Yeah, I want that on my resume." The ultimate pina colonic. But when kids see it, they go through the roof. It's a five-minute laugh...
...antenna built into the roof provides crystal-clear satellite-TV reception (with up to 200 channels) and high-speed Internet access...