Sunday, May 19, 2013
Between lunch in Little Italy and the Hessler Street Fair, we took a detour into
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art). It was Family Sunday with free admission.
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| Museum of Contemporary Art |
The new building opened in October 2012 and was designed by Iranian-born London-educated
Farshid Moussavi. MOCA is a non-collecting gallery, in other words, it does not have its own collection of art work. The space is used for events and exhibitions.
Along the staircase, a large, spray-painted abstraction on the walls of the atrium by Berlin artist Katharina Grosse.
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| Atrium wall (2012, by Katharina Grosse) |
The stairway which appears freestanding, leads eventually to a dead end, called the Observation Landing:
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| Kent on the Observation Landing |
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| Looking straight down from Observation Landing |
The exhibition today was titled "
Kate Gilmore, A Body of Work." She is a performance artist, and in one room you viewed the videos of her performances. In another room you saw the result of the performance:
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| Result of the video performance by Kate Gilmore |
There was also a makeshift theater where you sat in the dark and wore headphones. While silly things happened onscreen, you heard voices from the "audience."
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