Art Inside and Outside the Museum
Hanging in the windows of the old Commencement Art Gallery are event posters for things going on in Tacoma like the Zoo, live theater, and art exhibits. But a large movie poster (pictured) caught my eye because I’d seen it just last month … hanging on the walls of Tacoma Art Museum.
The film it advertises, United We Stand, is fake. The poster was put together by two artists, Eva and Franco Mattes, who call themselves 0100101110101101.ORG. They plastered this poster on walls all over Europe in 2005 and 2006 (see pictures here). The idea was a satire of Hollywood blockbusters, European patriotism, and probably a few more things as well.
The poster was displayed as part of TAM’s Sparkle Then Fade exhibit, which closed on Labor Day. Could it be the same poster? Did the museum not know what to do with it and so decided to give Tacoma a little high-profile guerrilla art?
Either way, it was very cool to catch a piece of art out “in the wild” in Tacoma after just seeing it hanging on the walls of a museum.
Links
Sparkle Then Fade at TAM
0100101110101101.org
United We Stand website
6 comments
S Sassy McButterpants February 11, 2008
Hmmm… you are quite right about my having committed to an evening with my cat involving Chocolate and Johnny Depp’s “Don Juan DeMarco”…
But Speed Dating sounds fun. So does curling into a ball while listening to “All by Myself” and chain smoking then sobbing myself to sleep…
hmmm.
E Erik S February 11, 2008
If there’s one thing I’m sure of at this most bitter time of the year, it’s that Eric Carmen will NOT be my valentine.
Even so, I think that you raise a good question, Sassy: what is the proper soundtrack to an evening spent sobbing, guzzling whiskey, and sifting through a battered shoebox full of Transformers and Rainbow Brite valentine cards from elementary school, trying to convince yourself that you are wanted?
How to Live Alone or Chicken Wire by Joe Pernice? Something on a crackly old Billie Holiday record? Or perhaps a little Elliott Smith? Nah, surely it’s the Smiths, overblown melodrama and all. I’m thinking Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me on a loop.
S Sassy McButterpants February 11, 2008
Sassy’s Soundtrack of Self Pity
Gloomy Sunday – Billie Holiday
Bought & Sold – Neko Case
All By Myself – Eric Carmen
Littlest Things- Lily Allen
Where Did I go Wrong? – Martin Sexton
Grey – Ani DiFranco
Wise Up – Amy Mann
Imitation of Love – Dr. John
Love is A Losing Game – Amy Winehouse
I don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance- Etta James
Shadowboxer – Fiona Apple
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
Blame it on my Youth – Jamie Cullum
Kissing A Fool – George Michael
Gone – NSync
Against All Odds – Phil Collins
I Never – Rilo Kiley
Miss You – Rolling Stones
Please Call Me, Baby – Tom Waits
Why – Annie Lennox
Pictures of You – The Cure
I can’t Make you Love Me- Bonnie Rait
Not that I’ve given it any thought.
P Patrick February 11, 2008
You wanna day to remember? Try this on for size…..Sabbath Bloody Sabbath at ear piercing volume, after a few whiskey shots of course, whilst atop the coffee table, feigning for my best Ozzie impersonation, cape and fake microphone in hand. Now that’s a V-day to remember, unless you wanna get all sorry for yourself and listen to that melodramatic B.S. which is E. Smith, seriously who stabs themselves in the chest, not Ozzie or pirates I’ll tell you that much!
C Christine February 11, 2008
J. Giles, “Love Stinks”.
E Erik S February 12, 2008
Wow, Sassy. I’m impressed that you had that just sitting in your back pocket. I was ashamed that I was not so well prepared and started right in on a comp when I got home, but I all I got in the end was too many tracks and not enough sleep.
To salvage something from the effort, a few suggestions:
Sea of Heartbreak – Don Gibson
Borrowed Bride – Old 97s
He Stopped Loving Her Today – George Jones
I Don’t Really Love You Anymore – Magnetic Fields
Only the Lonely – Roy Orbison
Tell You Brother – The Hookers
Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend – The Mr T Experience
Find Yourself Alone – Ken Stringfellow
Knock Loud – Sook-Yin Lee (or Neko Case for extra Tacoma-ness)
She’s Out There – The Fall-Outs
Baby Blue Sedan – Modest Mouse
Here Comes A Regular – The Replacements
Hooray for music!