Re: [-empyre-] Documenta reviews

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

patrick,


To be frank I didn't notice groups of Chinese people.  I was there  
for the several preview days and left on the afternoon of opening  
day. I wll be going back next week for the magazine conference.

What was strange though were Wei Wei's conglomerations of antique  
Chinese chairs.  Grouped elegantly and anonymously in the midst of
what sort of seemed like installations of other art.  Boundaries  
completely fluid, differentiation between different 'works' seemingly  
treated as unimportant.

Unfortunately throughout the Aue Pavilion and the Neue Gallerie,  
there seemed to be no places to actually sit when exhausted, to wait  
for someone, etc.

THe Chinese chairs intensified an atmosphere of uncanny oppression --  
so few human-scaled accomodations (architecturally) to the needs of  
visitiors, so many strange gestures.

Could you sit on the chairs ? or not?  no one was.

christina

On Jul 10, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Patrick W. Deegan wrote:

> for anyone else there witnessing D12, i would be deeply interested  
> in firsthand reactions, assessments, news, or lack of any of these  
> things regarding Ai Weiwei's "importation" of 1001 Chinese to  
> Germany for one part of his ouevre there.
> thanks!
> -pwdeegan
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