Ever-changing exhibit: Emergency Room
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(New York - WABC, March 8, 2007) - There's an ever-changing art exhibit on display in Queens, much like the news. It is literally replaced every 24 hours.
Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg has more on this art work.
It's not just one artist contributing to this project. It's two dozen and they are all bound by one rule that they create something that deals with the news of the day that Thierry agrees with.
Don't get too attached to anything you see on these walls because at 12:30 p.m. everyday, artists enter the circular gallery at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and get to work. They take down the art work that was hung before and replace it with their own new creations inspired by news of the past 24 hours.
"I found since I have been engaged in this project, I'm reading The Times, I'm looking at the BBC and I'm looking at the AP," artist Gail Rothschild said. "It's got to be a story that jumps out and bites me."
On Monday, Gail Rothschild was struck by bizarre die off of honeybee. The day before her piece was about Afghanistan's booming opium crop. She has created a different piece every day since exhibit opened early February.
The idea is Thierry Geoffroy's but is a recombination of a number of other peoples ideas. He calls it Emergency Room in part because he believes there are so many crises facing the world which artists can and should address.
"You can see things that other people cannot see," Thierry Geoffroy said. "So when you look at the newspaper and when you watch the news on TV, you can spot a lot of things that are strange to him."
Mac Premo has created short animations. It is about the diplomacy of North Korea visualized through the negotiation chairs. He and other artists agree the daily deadlines offer up a new sort of artistic challenge.
"It is good practice," an artist, Mac Premo, said. "It feels like good practice, conceptions."
"It was incredible opportunity to step aside from what I have been doing in my studio practice and to devote my self to this project," Gail Rothschild said.
The exhibit runs through March 19th. The best time to go is at about noon, so you can see yesterday's pieces replaced by the newest creations.
For more information visit:
www.ps1.org/emergencyroom
www.emergencyrooms.org
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
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