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The BYM and I visited the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday, twice.
The main attraction was the Douglas Coupland exhibition, which included sculptures titled "The Middle East" (created with pulp generated by Coupland chewing up old copies of his books) and a room-size representation of his brain, which included a rocking chair suspended over a tatami mat:
The rocking chair hearkens back to Emily Carr, who "kept the furniture in her small studio on a rope, and raised it to the ceiling when she wanted to be alone" (curator's note).
In another section of Coupland's brain, colorful spools of threads are connected to a model of a plane. The combination reminded me ofdichroic...
and "Dreamcatcher Blanket" brought to mindmarginaliana (she made a dreamcatcher some years ago that's hanging in the window of my own studio room):
Upstairs, an exhibit titled "Lost in the Memory Palace," by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, freaked me out more than a tad with its offerings of thick darkness and murderous robots and recordings of troubled conversations (the last in the Dark Pool. And parts of it were also gorgeous and stimulating, including the corner where I originally mistook a woman in "Opera for a Small Room" as part of the exhibit rather than another visitor.
...and it's now time to see more of the city. And tomorrow I will be reunited with the brilliant and beautiful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brit_columbia! Wheeyay!
The BYM and I visited the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday, twice.
The main attraction was the Douglas Coupland exhibition, which included sculptures titled "The Middle East" (created with pulp generated by Coupland chewing up old copies of his books) and a room-size representation of his brain, which included a rocking chair suspended over a tatami mat:
The rocking chair hearkens back to Emily Carr, who "kept the furniture in her small studio on a rope, and raised it to the ceiling when she wanted to be alone" (curator's note).
In another section of Coupland's brain, colorful spools of threads are connected to a model of a plane. The combination reminded me of
dichroic...and "Dreamcatcher Blanket" brought to mind
marginaliana (she made a dreamcatcher some years ago that's hanging in the window of my own studio room):Upstairs, an exhibit titled "Lost in the Memory Palace," by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, freaked me out more than a tad with its offerings of thick darkness and murderous robots and recordings of troubled conversations (the last in the Dark Pool. And parts of it were also gorgeous and stimulating, including the corner where I originally mistook a woman in "Opera for a Small Room" as part of the exhibit rather than another visitor.
...and it's now time to see more of the city. And tomorrow I will be reunited with the brilliant and beautiful
brit_columbia! Wheeyay!