Game Show.MASS MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) The games we play! And if games linguistic, chance-based, and skilled can be adopted as artistic strategy, then why not as the theme for an exhibition? It sounds like a winning wager to bring together contemporary artists (eleven in all) who have structured their work around games, from the political sport of Uri Tzaig's Israeli/Arab soccer match to the highly personalized play-scenarios of Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle’s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. . And viewers too will get their turn: Kay Rosen presents a huge interactive wall drawing-"a vast visual pun A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language). Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in Dutch gable stones as well as in cartoons such as Lost Consonants or The Far Side. "-for museum-goers to decode. Two auxiliary shows focus ing on Fluxus and Duchamp, respectively-plus an Oyvind Fahlstrom retrospective, which arrives in North Adams North Adams, city (1990 pop. 16,797), Berkshire co., NW Mass., in the Berkshire Hills, on the Hoosic River near the Vt. border; settled c.1737, set off from Adams and inc. 1878. It is located in a summer resort and winter ski area. from Barcelona-are all part of the grand curatorial jeu. May 27, 2001--Apr. 2002. |
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