For the past few months, I’ve avoided reading about this story for the same reasons I avoid watching slasher flicks: who needs all the gratuitous violence? But this oh-so-juicy NYT article is a nice round-up on the whole artist-versus-institution controversy and it has the benefit of disgorging one of Büchel’s installation shopping lists:
accouterments for Mass and Baptism; a hospital bed and related medical equipment; eight voting booths; hundreds of old tires; piles of old computers; 1,000 beverage cups from a race track; 1,000 feet of barbed wire; 12 grenades and 35 pounds of bullet casings; eight body bags and 75 white protective suits; four prosthetic legs; decorations and campaign buttons from election rallies; a concession stand, popcorn and popcorn buckets; Christmas lights; and 16 large bags of corn leaves and husks.
I don’t know what the hell he was working on, but I wish Mass MoCA would just give him the dough he needs to finish the project. I’m dying to know what he had planned for those popcorn buckets.
Posted by C-Monster