Comments on: Buying the Empire State Building and a brownstone in Brooklyn http://blog.sideshows.org/2009/03/adopt-a-building Thoughts on contemporary art and culture by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:03:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: C.Wells http://blog.sideshows.org/2009/03/adopt-a-building#comment-477 C.Wells Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:55:39 +0000 http://blog.sideshows.org/?p=618#comment-477 S, Perhaps too self-referant to account fully here, but 'Adopt a Building' reminds me of Cage's 'play' and chance work 'Rolywholyover'...the city in a phonebook (here panoramic image), museum collections indexed, then imploded in an eventual display...objects (here buildings) proxies for souls, their taxonomy and their assemblage, juxtaposing or harmonios but in any case...proxies for community. Star vs. understudy. CW S,

Perhaps too self-referant to account fully here, but ‘Adopt a Building’ reminds me of Cage’s ‘play’ and chance work ‘Rolywholyover’…the city in a phonebook (here panoramic image), museum collections indexed, then imploded in an eventual display…objects (here buildings) proxies for souls, their taxonomy and their assemblage, juxtaposing or harmonios but in any case…proxies for community. Star vs. understudy.

CW

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