Friday, October 9, 2009

Doing, Re-doing, Un-doing


How can we speak about embodiment without speaking of Louise Bourgeois? The sculpture work speaks for itself, but in thinking about reproduction, the digital and the haptic it's interesting to think of her installation called "I do, I re-do, I un-do" (2000), which also became a theater play that explored this notion of constant morphing. In the Tate Modern installation the visitors (users?) were invited to climb staircases to platforms, which could be "stages for intimate and revelatory encounters between strangers and friends alike" .

This first photo below I snapped not because of the Bourgeois' artwork itself but because the notion that a mother would drop off her 9-year-old alone at the Centre Pompidou and tell him to "meet her later" seemed beautiful and urgent. Maybe something Tara might do, even if Chuck E. Cheese is scholarship too.



1 comment:

  1. i love her work and the tate modern. but probably won't dropping dex off there anytime soon. although i'd drop him there before chuck e. cheese.....

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