Tag: installation art
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Marilyn Minter
I was intrigued by Mike Kelley’s work. I saw his show of stuffed animal sculptures and stuffed animal paintings. He would decoupage bureau drawers with eyes and mouths. I thought, “Wow! If a woman artist made this work, nobody would pay any attention to it.” It was really mining a teenage or adolescent girl’s bedroom.…
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John Cage
Well the first time I saw [Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés], he had made an experiment of taking it from 14th Street where he made it. Do you know the story of his two studios? He had two studios. One was the one he was working in and the other was the one where he had…
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David Brooks
This project, satirically titled Preserved Forest, entailed the indoor construction of an earthen hill upon which were planted numerous nursery-grown trees to approximate a forest cross section of the Amazon. Once the forest was assembled, twelve cubic yards (twenty-five tons) of cement was dumped over the trees, entombing the entire indoor forest in concrete. As…
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David Tremlett
There’s a piece at the Tate that was made of cassettes. On each of them is the sound of one county in England. But all you hear is the water or the wind or the rain. That’s it. Sometimes you hear the sound of a bird. In essence, it’s something with no mechanical sounds, ‘it…