Art Attack
Jul. 13th, 2002 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianSkipped out on my reunion deal. Fine, I paid for it and everything, but there are more important things going on right now.
Dropped in on Tate Modern this evening. Noticed there was a Damien Hurst piece on display, thought I'd go take a look. It was called "Pharmacy" -- a nice innocuous name, so I figured I'd not get accosted by pickled cow foetus. The first thing that struck me as eerie was that the man set up a pharmacy -- an actual hospital grade pharmacy -- in that room. Then set up four stools with bowls on them in the middle of the room. In each of the bowls was a honeycomb (hopefully sprayed with fixative so they wouldn't rot). Suspended above the stools was an industrial-sized bug-zapper.
Meaning of piece: the medical profession is a sugar-coating on the fact that we are all going to die someday. Way cheerful. Not what I need to be inflicting on myself just at the moment. Let's just say it took the fun right out of the Subversive Objects exhibit in the next room. I finally find a piece of art that speaks to me and what it says is "Run. Now. Fast."
Anyway, I got through another 24-hour period without going completely demented. Let's see if I can keep up the good work.
Thessaly
Dropped in on Tate Modern this evening. Noticed there was a Damien Hurst piece on display, thought I'd go take a look. It was called "Pharmacy" -- a nice innocuous name, so I figured I'd not get accosted by pickled cow foetus. The first thing that struck me as eerie was that the man set up a pharmacy -- an actual hospital grade pharmacy -- in that room. Then set up four stools with bowls on them in the middle of the room. In each of the bowls was a honeycomb (hopefully sprayed with fixative so they wouldn't rot). Suspended above the stools was an industrial-sized bug-zapper.
Meaning of piece: the medical profession is a sugar-coating on the fact that we are all going to die someday. Way cheerful. Not what I need to be inflicting on myself just at the moment. Let's just say it took the fun right out of the Subversive Objects exhibit in the next room. I finally find a piece of art that speaks to me and what it says is "Run. Now. Fast."
Anyway, I got through another 24-hour period without going completely demented. Let's see if I can keep up the good work.
Thessaly
