Artistic Installation at the Frost Art Museum, Miami. May 25th to September 18th

1. WHO’S COUNTING AND TEMPORAL STATE OF BEING
Saturday, June 25, 2011

2. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Saturday, June 25, 2011

3. May 25th through September 18th
Saturday, June 25, 2011

4. OVERVIEW
This exhibit consists of two separate works that look at modern life.
Temporal State of Being is concerned with the world we have constructed around
ourselves, The room you sleep in, the one you eat in or watch a movie in. These are
inside the larger room you call home, that might be inside a building that contains it. It’s
also the car you drive, the parking garage, the office building you work in. All box-like in
form, All forms of modern containment.
Who’s Counting looks at the objects we fill our rooms with. The clothing, the forks and
knifes, the table the chairs, the computer, the phone, the bed, the towels, the shoes in
the closet. It looks at a home that contains less than a 1000 objects.
Why show these together? We are interested in the built environment and the human
behavior within these confines. We are also curious about what causes people to
accumulate “things”. How some live spare, almost monistic lives, while others fill every
inch of their homes with things.
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5. TEMPORAL STATE OF BEING
3 channel video - duration approx. 4minutes, continuously looped.
This installation explores the idea that twenty-first
century life is lived, to a surprising degree, in a
context of boxes of our own making. Have we lost
a sense of the boundlessness and seamlessness
of space and time, because of the pervasively
rectangular environments and of everyday life?
How does the "boxiness" of our civilized
environment affect the way we see, feel and
experience the world?
Temporal State of Being explores these themes via
a media installation that engages the concept of a
box in many ways, at multiple levels. The viewer
will visit a box - the installation itself; watch video
on box shaped monitors; see and hear
respondents' descriptions of how boxes are
intertwined into daily life.
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6. TEMPORAL STATE OF BEING
View the video footage
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7. WHO’S COUNTING
16 color prints - approx. size - 4’ x 2’ - 7”
This is a series of images that look at the objects
we have in our homes. Everything from how
many teaspoons are in the drawer, to the number
of pillows on the bed. If it’s not attached to the
wall it’s counted as an object. Room by room we
look at how many objects we own.
How many do things do you have in your home?
The number may surprise you.
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8. WHO’S COUNTING
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9. OPENING NIGHT
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12. Thank you
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