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55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
Audio/Video Library
Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
Posted 10|13|08
Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
Posted 09|29|08
Remainder, a new process/performance by Attack Theatre: Phase one
Posted 09|23|08
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Attack Theatre: Remainder, Phase Two
Thurs., Jan. 8
Attack Theatre dancers return to Carnegie Museum of Art for Phase Two of Remainder, a 10-month process/performance inspired by Life on Mars.
Daily film screenings of Sharon Lockhart's Pine Flat in Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
2:00 p.m. daily
Additional screening Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Running time: 138 min.
schedule is subject to change
Life on Mars High School Audience Engagement Project
Three Kinds in Transition
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Isolated in a stairwell adjacent to the Hall of Sculpture, a simple light box displays Haegue Yang's sequence of images depicting globes and orgami forms transforming from one to the next. The day I saw the piece it was alternating images of brightly colored orgami structures. The forms changed skins like a chameleon, black and white metaphored into eye popping candy colors and back again.
I remember when the Zero Gravity interns met withLowry Burgess, an art professor at CMU, and he talked about various ways to simulate the sensations of zero gravity, one of those ways is to look at something crossed eyed. So I decided to test this idea. I stared at Yang's orgami structures for a few minutes with my eyes crossed and I began to see the colors slowly shifting, bleeding from one color to the next. One color would linger for a few seconds acting as a kind of shadow overlapping the next color only for a brief moment until the next set of colors would appear. I felt a strange lightness feeling possibly from being dizzy, but either way it was a cool experience.
The piece made me think of how we all are in a constant state of transition moving through space where it seems like moments in time go by so quickly unnoticed. No matter what we do inevitabily time will go on whether we are ready or not.
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