[ROAR] is concerned about the effects of the $50 million project, which will drill 9,100 holes into the ground, some as deep as 30 feet, and require a crew of 3,000 workers to install over a 27-month period. The area is a habitat for Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep, bald eagles, and Peregrine falcons, and the livelihoods of many locals depend on it. — denverpost.com
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That's enough Christo, go to Hajj now!
How does he have time to do that AND govern New Jersey?
what is the point of this project?
"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art."
-Brian Eno
via Absolutement Moderne
Donna, I won't question it is art or not, it is. But I always thought Christo and Jeanne Claude were exorbitant and they never overcame that problem. It is akin to expectations fulfilled time after time 'at all costs.' Christo effect suffering from one Iinerness? Their popularity is more of a hype and not necessarily a qualitative placement since it doesn't forward the work to a more critical conditions as far as this post is concerned. I don't know if Brian Eno could be triggered by a work of art clearly disturbes the animals and eco system of a long stretch of a river? If any, he would want to stop it if he is the same Eno whom I agree with his political and moral standards. I would think he would make some distinctive points between Andre and covered river project on his above statement.
I share the concerns about the environmental impact. I first thought the proposal was just for one linear mile of the river, but it's actually for a 46-mile stretch!
On the other hand, not as art but as science, if it happens, great opportunity for an environmental study to prove things we think we already know.
Orhan, if you haven't, you should check out the series of documentaries on their work, going back several decades. They have dealt with many issues and setbacks over time, including a few deaths.
i was very much around during those umbrellas fred.
I enjoyed his umbrellas north of Los Angeles but this seems to be needlessly damaging to the local environment. Why not just wrap the Capitol in DC? No one's using it.
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