Re: [bolger] Re: Micros across the Atlantic?
Found it!
Seehttp://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/hart/hart8-8-96.asp
Bill
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Seehttp://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/hart/hart8-8-96.asp
Bill
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> The artist is Chris Burden.Quite a performance/conceptual artist.
Google it to learn more, he made himself
famous for a performance art piece in 1971
which involved himself being shot with a gun.
I think a lot of his art involves putting the
audience at risk, and I recall seeing a
performance in about 1992 at the ground
breaking ceremony for the S.F. Museum
of Modern Art. I forget the name of the
artist, but I think it was Chris Burden.
In involved a giant robotic machine, and
hundreds of dignitaries were assembled
in a roped-off area, with the masses of
general spectators surrounding this all
on some 'vacated parking lots' where the
museum would be built. I was located
on the roof of an adjacent building.
This robot had swinging arms with chainsaws,
plus propane cannons that caused huge
thundering explosions and fireballs. I also recall
swinging arms that flung paint bombs in random
directions, and the whole thing moved around kind
of randomly and threateningly. It made a huge
impression on me, what I recall most vividly,
from my vantage point above the throng was
the movements of the crowds, ebbing and
flowing in response to their proximity to the
danger, and the 'dignitaries' were located
in the riskiest spots, with their fur coats and
tuxedos exposed to flying paint!
Sort of a high-brow high-stakes Gallagher
.
The artist is Chris Burden. One was exposed in Barcelona.
You can see the photo in the files folder(MICRO):
http://f2.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MPUQQgEhL5oUEkroZ9NvbLhDRgTVjHok-
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u1rGpOI9Q0erzU5zEW0j70EZQwDoOkUu17ZQuhLuWtxuuZfxA/Micro/micro%
20chris%20burden.jpg
You can see the photo in the files folder(MICRO):
http://f2.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MPUQQgEhL5oUEkroZ9NvbLhDRgTVjHok-
Qw_rrTCzCTisoUdZloCi-
u1rGpOI9Q0erzU5zEW0j70EZQwDoOkUu17ZQuhLuWtxuuZfxA/Micro/micro%
20chris%20burden.jpg
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Lenihan" <peterlenihan@h...>
wrote: "I do not think they were ever launched and instead ended up
in some sort of museum setting all rigged and looking for all the
world as if they were sailing."
You're right on Mr. Lenihan. I saw a photo of the three in an art
museum somewhere. Looked very cool, all three set to the same angle
of heel, on the same heading and with a fan filling their sails.
Bruce Hector
Category 3b and 3a Micros builder/owner.
wrote: "I do not think they were ever launched and instead ended up
in some sort of museum setting all rigged and looking for all the
world as if they were sailing."
You're right on Mr. Lenihan. I saw a photo of the three in an art
museum somewhere. Looked very cool, all three set to the same angle
of heel, on the same heading and with a fan filling their sails.
Bruce Hector
Category 3b and 3a Micros builder/owner.
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Will Samson" <willsamson@y...> wrote:
Hi Bill,
I think I can recall this story too.Maybe I've got it confused
with another but here it goes;The boats were built to commemorate
the Columbus adventure(there were only three built:Nina,Pinta Santa
Maria) however I do not think they were ever launched and instead
ended up in some sort of museum setting all rigged and looking for
all the world as if they were sailing....
With any kind of luck,I've got the story so mixed up,someone will
put me straight and deliver the facts :-)
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan
Hi you Micro fans.
I seem to remember reading, about 15 years ago, give or take quite a lot, of an 'artist' who built a fleet of Micros (four I think), equipped them with some kind of automatic steering, and planned to set them on their way across the Atlantic.
I never did hear whether he actually did it, or whether any of them survived the trip. I suspect the Coastguards wouldn't be too happy with these unmanned boats sailing across the sea lanes.
Anyway - Does anyone else remember this report? Any idea what became of the project?
Bill
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I seem to remember reading, about 15 years ago, give or take quite a lot, of an 'artist' who built a fleet of Micros (four I think), equipped them with some kind of automatic steering, and planned to set them on their way across the Atlantic.
I never did hear whether he actually did it, or whether any of them survived the trip. I suspect the Coastguards wouldn't be too happy with these unmanned boats sailing across the sea lanes.
Anyway - Does anyone else remember this report? Any idea what became of the project?
Bill
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