Word: strobe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harder to take was Robert Whitman's black-draped funeral fun house, hung with violently vibrating Mylar mirrors. A screaming oscillator sadistically shivered the viewers' eardrums as it shattered their reflections on the mirrors. Equally diabolical was Boyd Mefferd's mini-discotheque, where strobe lights flashed up through colored plastic panels in the floor with such seeming moderation that many of the younger spectators felt an irresistible urge to sit or lie down in order to get closer to the beams...
...distinction, he points out, is that "an environment is set up in a defined space, a happening is a theatrical performance, or continuing activity"). Artists who followed in his wake have moved a long way from his early haphazard, boisterous ways. Luminal artists first experimented with the pulsating strobe effects and psychedelic projections that have since moved into discotheques, ballets and boutiques; the newest and most radical works are apt to be calm, cool and minimal. A case in point is Dan Flavin's "Indoor Routines," constructed of 54 pink and gold fluorescent tubes, which turned the main floor...
Secondly, students sometimes see in each others' work media used for effect instead of for a purpose integral to the motive idea. For example, it was remarked of the recent showing of a student thesis called The Production that color slides and a strobe seemed to be worked in just because they could be used, and not because the show called for them...
...royal-blue tights flung themselves across the stage like beanbags. Crazed clowns attacked a plastic bubble, which, inflating like a Zeppelin, devoured them alive. Minstrels strutted, samurai cut curlicues in the air. And while filmed images slithered across a billowing screen, a man and a woman simulated lovemaking as strobe lights flickered, spotlights raked the audience, and a raga-rock band screamed bloody murder...
...tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth" in religion...