04/06/2006
About the Banner #8
The last banner was a photo of a Gary Hill video sound installation which is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The installation, called "Inasmuch as It Is Always Already Taking Place" was created in 1990.
It's a fascinating piece — basically a self-portrait of Gary Hill himself. Each monitor broadcasts an image of the artist's own body and the monitor size corresponds to the size of the body part which it displays. The installation is intended to recreate Hill's body as a living, breathing entity via a system of wires and monitors that connect back to something in the dark recesses of the space — the unseen part of a man, the soul.
For my own purposes, I collapsed the photo. I thought it appropriate to use here in a space where the objectification of the male form is also broadcast via the monitor you're looking into right now.
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Posted 10:52 AM EST by Andy Towle in About the Banner, Photography, towleroad | Permalink
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andy -- can't tell you how often I look at this collapsed photo and think it depicts Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles --
I guess the assemblage of grey shapes just hits my eyeballs that way.
Thanks for the explainer - I was wondering what it was all this time.
From the left Coast, DB
Posted by: David Barber | Apr 6, 2006 12:48:57 PM
thanks for the explaination...I saw it in person and said what the fuck is this but found it fascinating...I always need explaination when it comes to modern art....but I'll stand in front of a wok and just take it all in & maybe not get what the artist was offering to us but my own interpretation...I am alot better( & understand it more) with modern art as I get older
Posted by: TC | Apr 6, 2006 12:59:02 PM
His cock looks nasty.
Posted by: Larry | Apr 6, 2006 1:12:33 PM
This installation is in the hallway to the delicious cafe, and so everytime I pass, I make a point to show it to whoever I am with: it is always a mesmerizingly quite moment in terms of imagery and sound.
Posted by: robert | Apr 6, 2006 1:13:01 PM