In OMA and artist Taryn Simon's "An Occupation of Loss," professional mourners create unique performances of grief into an enormous sculpture of eight 45 foot concrete inverted wells that act as "a discordant instrument." It's not just for professional criers: during the day, visitors are encouraged to interact with the sculpture, exploring their own grief while recordings of the previous evening's performance are played in the background.
On display at the Park Avenue Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall through September 25th, the sculpture will be moved to the Artangel in London next year.
As OMA's Shohei Shigematsu noted, “The design was sonically-motivated, focusing on the performative act of loss rather than its physical manifestation, which has been historically marked by multiple scales – from tombstones to the World Trade Center Memorial. The industrial wells were configured into a readymade ruin that responds to both personal and monumental dimensions."
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Perfect, I love it.
Has Rem always been a fan of the German Expressionists?
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