Lecture 012

9:20

Mika Rottenberg

Seeds: different women?

Homage to New York

Yves Tinguely self-destroying machine

Artist Name: Jean Tinguely From: Swiss Time: 1960 Genre:

Size: Twenty-three feet long, twenty-seven feet high

Components:

Happened:

Result: fire department stepped in

browsed the remnants of the machine for souvenirs to take home

This hommage to the energy of a city that keeps rebuilding itself time after time is a wonderful example of the different and sometimes conflicting conceptions of artists and engineers on how machines should work–and as such an early collaborative effort that foreshadowed the events staged by E.A.T.—as well as a document on the 60s with the rise of happening and performance.

Wangechi Mutu

The end of eating anything Africa Kenya

trash bag filled with stuff with gold string

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