The Glass Project – Chapter One: The Bathroom
A MULTIMEDIA WINDOW INSTALLATION
The Glass Project dedicates itself to the liberation of J.D. Salinger’s much adored Glass Family, imprisoned behind their cream and rainbow insignia paperbacks and littered about his short stories including Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenter, and Nine Stories. In The Glass Project, these circumscribed darlings, published in the Kennedy era,and part of a tradition of controversy over copyright and reproduction, become accessible through a final, unnamed character in the epic saga: their house.
Chapter 1: The Bathroom, the first in this series of multimedia installations and performances, explores the universal themes of voyeurism, relief, and release associated with this most private and precious of rooms. This exploration of the Glass Family’s history with bathrooms will serve as a crossword puzzle that has been written over, incompletely erased, yet is still legible to all observers. Through video, sound, and an interactive telephone line, Chapter 1: The Bathroom becomes a medium for both the family’s prodigious catharses and the reader’s blind obsession with these cult figures. In an age where paper literature’s popularity has shifted towards tabloids, The Glass Project harkens instead to a cultural obsession with a fictional reality.
For more details visit: www.theglassproject.net
Podcasts from museums
I was reading Warren Craighead’s blog the other day and stumbled upon a little post about MoMA putting podcasts online and at itunes – I downloaded a few and felt like I was really just listening to excerpts from the guided tour – that was a bit sad really because I was hoping for a much more engaging experience. While eating breakfast on Saturday, I came over an article on museums allowing visitors to use there own cell phones and ipods for the walking tours. Evidently the cost of managing and supplying the traditional recorded tour is a huge financial loss for most museums.
Warren Craighead’s blog is at: http://www.wcraghead.com/weblog/blog.html
Hockey night in the art world
Most anyone who reads this knows I’m trying real hard to not talk hockey as often as I wish, however I’ve recently stumbled over a bit of knowledge that makes me start to re-think this moratorium on ice hockey. Tyler at MAN talks hockey far more often than I (not that either one of us is on our way to a sports page) and we both have to root for the caps. But here comes OGIC (another Arts Journal blogger – hmmm.) learning how to skate (bonus points for hockey skates by the way) and she has to root for the Blackhawks (for those not following the NHL it’s as dire as the Capitals). That said, lets hear from the rest of you closet hockey/art people.
I’m seriously thinking ABMB needs a street hockey game this year. Can goalies hold little dogs as they play?
hockey rules.