TALK, HANS HAACKE
This pattern (I didn't invent it):
a double answer and I give you half.
Like an hourglass--physical participation required:
knew it would be a cold exhibition ("Weather, or not").
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 12-10-09 (1:33 PM)
I was lucky enough to catch a talk by this major early conceptual artist at the Phillips
Collection in Washington DC yesterday from 5:45 to 7:15 PM. A much more low-key
presentation than I had expected from his confrontational earlier work, though a
collector/trustee did call him out during the Q & A for biting the hand that feeds him.
Haacke admitted that he wasn't a good businessman.
In any case, my snap constitutes the first stanza of a projected acrostic sonnet. When I
first drafted it, I knew I had something publishable, but I wasn't as sure of the rest of the
material I had carved out of his talk. Last night, I only had enough energy to revise the
first stanza and just now made 5 more corrections. Perhaps I'll be able to "keep going";
I certainly have enough material via the acrostic generator, but how the second stanza
will compare to the first . . .
http://twitter.com/16Miles/status/6381091660
I didn't quite hear this last night, but I'll believe that Haacke described his current exhibit
in a former building of the Dia Foundation in NYC as the "most adverse conditions for
display of art": giant fans blowing and all windows open.
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