~ ~ ~ Notes from Paper Lane: a GNE weblog |
This afternoon I put 777 copies of several objects in Room 101 of Rital Inn.
I didn’t announce it as an installation, I just did it. Took me about an hour.
There were webs, metafilters, design fetish magazines, breath mints, and animes.
I made it a combination of time-wasting stuff.
The reason I didn’t announce it is because I don’t think installations can be successful in GNE. And installation is something that’s permanent. Or permanent at the discretion of the artist. And most objects in GNE can be consumed or moved.
But it was terribly fun. This evening, all of it was gone except for the Design Fetish magazine. All of those were intact and present. And I found one lucky player who had diligently made off (and profited from) the Metafilters.
Installations (as a player) make me nervous, because I’m constantly wary of touching someone else’s stuff. But putting them together is great fun.
Installations re only permanent in the most literal sense of the word - ask Christo, Chris Burden, Marina Abromowitz, Gilbert y George, or even the gentleman who curates the Butterfly exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. The life of the piece and the piece’s interaction with the space it occupies are all valid parts of the art. Let go, and enjoy the true transitory nature of the GNE.