Have you heard about this yet? If you live in Indiana, you probably have:
http://www.ibj.com/highprofile-art-at-airport-removed-for-video-wall/PARAMS/article/31038
http://www.ibj.com/airport-artist-complains-about-removal-of-public-art/PARAMS/article/28814
James Faust's piece "Chrysalis" is coming down to make room for a monitor, as if this world needs another oversized television screen. It was his understanding that the wall sculpture that he created for that specific space would be up for at least a decade. The article alludes to the lack of reading the fine print by Faust and his wife on the Indianapolis Airport Art Contract. They claim that it the works were always intended to be rotated. Faust knew it would eventually be rotated, but not after only three years, and replaced by a television screen.
The art community cannot be outraged completely - the television screen will be featuring video art by Artur Silva that is precisely 62 seconds long (the amount of time to descend to the baggage claim on the escalator below). If it were only that, maybe I wouldn't feel threatened by their choice...but of course, that is not all they will be featuring. Guess. Yes, that's right, advertisements. Commercials.
I'm interested to see what the ratio is between the time spent showing Silva's 62 second film, and advertising. I'm hoping that they only show a ten second advertisement per hour, but I'm not foolish enough about the culture we live in to believe that. They will probably load it up with all sorts of junk with Silva's film becoming the commercial break to the commercials. If they were truly using the television screen for video art, they would have more film artists showing their work back to back without any commercials at all. Instead, it is going to be one artist at a time...with commercials.
The airport will be looking for more local and national artists in film to feature on their new screen in the future months. That had me thinking...
The best, hilarious idea I have come up with is this - someone needs to go over to the airport and film Faust's sculpture as is, followed by the bringing it down, and ending with the installing of the telelvision screen. (...they started taking it down on Monday, so I'm hoping that someone had the same idea and filmed already!)
Could you imagine if they featured that on that screen?! Of course, it would involve trickery, but I think it'd be great jab. So if you live by Indy, get out there and film! hahaha! Or please share your better idea of what to do!
What's your take on this article and situation? Do you believe that Faust missed the fine print? What should Faust do with the work now?
http://www.ibj.com/highprofile-art-at-airport-removed-for-video-wall/PARAMS/article/31038
http://www.ibj.com/airport-artist-complains-about-removal-of-public-art/PARAMS/article/28814
James Faust's piece "Chrysalis" is coming down to make room for a monitor, as if this world needs another oversized television screen. It was his understanding that the wall sculpture that he created for that specific space would be up for at least a decade. The article alludes to the lack of reading the fine print by Faust and his wife on the Indianapolis Airport Art Contract. They claim that it the works were always intended to be rotated. Faust knew it would eventually be rotated, but not after only three years, and replaced by a television screen.
The art community cannot be outraged completely - the television screen will be featuring video art by Artur Silva that is precisely 62 seconds long (the amount of time to descend to the baggage claim on the escalator below). If it were only that, maybe I wouldn't feel threatened by their choice...but of course, that is not all they will be featuring. Guess. Yes, that's right, advertisements. Commercials.
I'm interested to see what the ratio is between the time spent showing Silva's 62 second film, and advertising. I'm hoping that they only show a ten second advertisement per hour, but I'm not foolish enough about the culture we live in to believe that. They will probably load it up with all sorts of junk with Silva's film becoming the commercial break to the commercials. If they were truly using the television screen for video art, they would have more film artists showing their work back to back without any commercials at all. Instead, it is going to be one artist at a time...with commercials.
The airport will be looking for more local and national artists in film to feature on their new screen in the future months. That had me thinking...
The best, hilarious idea I have come up with is this - someone needs to go over to the airport and film Faust's sculpture as is, followed by the bringing it down, and ending with the installing of the telelvision screen. (...they started taking it down on Monday, so I'm hoping that someone had the same idea and filmed already!)
Could you imagine if they featured that on that screen?! Of course, it would involve trickery, but I think it'd be great jab. So if you live by Indy, get out there and film! hahaha! Or please share your better idea of what to do!
What's your take on this article and situation? Do you believe that Faust missed the fine print? What should Faust do with the work now?
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