I was walking around Bryant Park when I saw Kate Gilmore's installation "Walk the Walk" and was stricken by how exhausted some of the walking girls looked, so I thought: "I should film this" and here it is:
Then I read the New York Times article "
Pounding
the Pavement on a Bryant Park Pedestal" by Randy Kennedy and I understood what the art piece was about, but it still seemed a bit frivolous and abstract. And then a week later a friend invited me on a member's tour of the Whitney museum where the curator Gary Carrion-Murayari personally introduced us to the art in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and there it was again, the name Kate Gilmore and another art piece by her. In this one she is fighting her way out of a toll sheet rock square. Completely enclosed in the tight space she pounds the walls with her own hands and feet, dressed in a feminine dress and shoes and wearing nothing but light leather gloves. "What does it mean?", you say. The New York Times article explains this project as: "the absurdity of contemporary life" and Whitney Museum as "the fight of women with daily obstacles". An the other project "Walk the Walk" in Bryant Park as "the determination it takes just to walk down a busy city street", expressed in the girls walking endlessly on top of the Bryant Park cube...
I have daily struggles! I walk around... even endlessly or aimlessly sometimes! Why is it that I still don't feel convinced? I do understand the concept now, but I'm thinking of maybe surrounding myself with a pile of clothes and fight my way out of it with shoes in my hands.
Would that be art?
What if I write up a smart concept behind it and tie it up to social behavior?
What is art? Is art legitimized if someone paid for it?
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I was walking around Bryant Park when I saw Kate Gilmore's installation "Walk the Walk" and was stricken by how exhausted some of the walking girls looked, so I thought: "I should film this" and here it is:
Then I read the New York Times article "
Pounding
the Pavement on a Bryant Park Pedestal" by Randy Kennedy and I understood what the art piece was about, but it still seemed a bit frivolous and abstract. And then a week later a friend invited me on a member's tour of the Whitney museum where the curator Gary Carrion-Murayari personally introduced us to the art in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and there it was again, the name Kate Gilmore and another art piece by her. In this one she is fighting her way out of a toll sheet rock square. Completely enclosed in the tight space she pounds the walls with her own hands and feet, dressed in a feminine dress and shoes and wearing nothing but light leather gloves. "What does it mean?", you say. The New York Times article explains this project as: "the absurdity of contemporary life" and Whitney Museum as "the fight of women with daily obstacles". An the other project "Walk the Walk" in Bryant Park as "the determination it takes just to walk down a busy city street", expressed in the girls walking endlessly on top of the Bryant Park cube...
I have daily struggles! I walk around... even endlessly or aimlessly sometimes! Why is it that I still don't feel convinced? I do understand the concept now, but I'm thinking of maybe surrounding myself with a pile of clothes and fight my way out of it with shoes in my hands.
Would that be art?
What if I write up a smart concept behind it and tie it up to social behavior?
What is art? Is art legitimized if someone paid for it?
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