Ann Hamilton's The Event of a Thread at Park Avenue Armory at closing
Happy New Year!
2013 is already off to a better start than last year, isn't it? Ok, I know, it's been three days, but I'm optimistic.
We saw an amazing amount of good shows last year. Many of which I didn't blog about. A friend asked if I had become lazy; which annoyed me quite a bit, but there just wasn't enough time to see and post. So here are a few worth mentioning.
One of our favorites was Tomas Saraceno's Cloud City on the roof of the Met this past summer. I was heartbroken when I found out it was already owned by Christian K. Keesee, because I wanted it for my own imaginary back yard. It will, however be at the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Colo. summer 2013 in a lush forest. I read in an interview that one of the inspirations for the modular shapes were liquid bubbles.
I kind of see a resemblance
Two other shows we highly recommend that are still open, but I don't have images of because there is no photography allowed:
Christian Marclay's The Clock at Moma through Jan 21, 2013
But let's get back to Ann Hamilton's show at The Park Armory which closes Sunday the 6th...so get over there this weekend!
Still of the cloth being pulled by the swings
The kid watching the singer at closing
the best vantage point of the cloth moving
Poetry and pigeons
They release these pigeons at the end of the night
20 minutes before closing this singer comes out of the balcony and sings before they release the pigeons
pulleys and ropes from the swings in the rafters
Radios are in these paper bags that you can listen to and carry around, Kid was not impressed though
Swingers
Poet
Above a short clip of the cloth in motion. It was quite dreamy to lie under and watch all the shapes about to touch our noses.
"I can remember the feeling of swinging—how hard we would work for those split seconds, flung at furthest extension, just before the inevitable downward and backward pull, when we felt momentarily free of gravity, a little hiccup of suspension when our hands loosened on the chain and our torsos raised off the seat. We were sailing, so inside the motion—time stopped—and then suddenly rushed again toward us. We would line up on the playground and try to touch the sky, alone together." Ann Hamilton
Oh and by the way they are super serious, you are not going to touch anything!
You can sit in the chairs
Someone touched this
We really do like this show, but were really thrown by the non-touchiness of it, especially the kid, because it looks like it would be touchable. Also important to mention, if you decide to go, make sure you have enough time to go to the indoctrination station (I was told 45 minutes to get through the process) which allows you more access and the demonstrations only happen on predetermined dates; which I'm sure enhances the experience.
Demos take place June 7th at 8pm or June 16th in which a marathon of demos will take place all day. Also noted Tuesdays 4pm to 7pm are free admission. More information at Tom Sachs official web site and family program info can be found at The Armory site.
