It's Aht

Hi,

So this weekend I went camping near North Adams MA. As part of the weekend, we stopped by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

It's a bit of a hike to get out there, but the current exhibits are really great. Downstairs they've got work by Spencer Finch who does a lot of work about light and recreating the effects of nature. The Uncertainty Principle is translated into dots, a collection of window fans recreates the wind experienced at Walden Pond. Lots of neat stuff.

But upstairs is a second exhibit called "The Believers" and it's just fantastic. You know the guy who builds giant wind-powered walking machines from tubing? His name is Theo Jansen and one of his creations is on display.

There's also a lot of stuff on display by artists with a distinctly occult point of view. We've got disturbing artwork from Breyer P-Orridge -- formerly Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye (no, not the GI Joe trooper). I say formerly because the two of them are undergoing plastic surgery to look more like each other (um...not art for the squeamish). In a similar vein there's work from CarianaCarianne -- two personalities sharing the same body. More discrete artists include Witch Vortex who moved his worship circle into the museum, Walter Cassidy who photographs his magickal rituals and Emery Blagdon, a recluse farmer from North Platte, Nebraska who built a shack and filled it with "healing machines".

So...lots of great stuff. Highly recommended way to enjoy a lazy weekend day.

later
Tom

It's Aht

Hi,

So this weekend I went camping near North Adams MA. As part of the weekend, we stopped by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

It's a bit of a hike to get out there, but the current exhibits are really great. Downstairs they've got work by Spencer Finch who does a lot of work about light and recreating the effects of nature. The Uncertainty Principle is translated into dots, a collection of window fans recreates the wind experienced at Walden Pond. Lots of neat stuff.

But upstairs is a second exhibit called "The Believers" and it's just fantastic. You know the guy who builds giant wind-powered walking machines from tubing? His name is Theo Jansen and one of his creations is on display.

There's also a lot of stuff on display by artists with a distinctly occult point of view. We've got disturbing artwork from Breyer P-Orridge -- formerly Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye (no, not the GI Joe trooper). I say formerly because the two of them are undergoing plastic surgery to look more like each other (um...not art for the squeamish). In a similar vein there's work from CarianaCarianne -- two personalities sharing the same body. More discrete artists include Witch Vortex who moved his worship circle into the museum, Walter Cassidy who photographs his magickal rituals and Emery Blagdon, a recluse farmer from North Platte, Nebraska who built a shack and filled it with "healing machines".

So...lots of great stuff. Highly recommended way to enjoy a lazy weekend day.

later
Tom