Mass MoCA is a contemporary art museum in western Massachusetts.
Mass MoCA Contemporary art, film, performance.
Rotating Wolf/Dog heads with Blade tongues (I wish I written down the artist)
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We got to see the exhibit that was entangled up with the artist’s ego and the museum’s desire to stop funding his balooning budget. The last request he had was to purchase a plane, explode it and then strew the pieces around the massive gallery, or so I heard. I guess the museum directors thought this was too much money. The exhibit was eventually canceled after some legal maneuvering. But we did get to peek around the tarps that were hiding it and saw where the artist was going. He had created a trash-yard dystopia — full of security towers, rotting furniture, burned out cars and a merrygo-around (carousel) with little missiles for the children to ride upon. A grim vision in an epic gallery space, that I would still have liked to have viewed completed. Christoph Büchel probably won’t have another opportunity to use a large space like this for a long time.
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The Believers
This group exhibit included Theo Jansen’s very cool wind-powered (or human powered) light-weight behemoths, that he calls Beach Animals (Strandbeest). These large scale gentle beasts are organized to move their light weight legs when the wind is strong enough to change the pressure in their air chambers. Large sails, gears, and straw limbs create a gentle skeleton which can fairly gracefully move across the beach at low tide.
Some creatures were designed to dig into the sand during windy days to anchor themselves from toppling over. Others had small scouts that could be sent forward to determine where the ocean rim was located. That way, the larger beast could have enough time to slow down its bulk and reverse direction before getting wet. Fantastical.
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Spencer Finch
What Time Is It On The Sun?
was clever.
