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04/02/2005 Archived Entry: "News from the Motor City"

News from the Motor City
The graduate student organization did a nice job yesterday hosting Geoff Sirc. Geoff and I hit the DIA early in the day before his talk. The collection has been put out thematically - work about postmen, work about spirituality, work about portraits. Art categories as pattern formation. Easy to imagine a curatorial writing project where students collect a vareity of imagery and categorize them by pattern, not concept. I'm also considering extending Geoff's game of "which piece would you take home if you could" into a writing assignment....write about which piece you'd put up in your home and why.
And, of course, much standing around and admiring the Rivera murals.

Detroit's technological past fresco-style. The metaphor is more than steel, right? Apply to your discipline where needed. Composition as Detroit Industry, North Wall. The machine apparatus continuing the failed project of Modernism: assembly line mentality. Machine scoring? Machine testing? Machine assessment? In all its forms and flavors (from Texas Tech to the SAT). In the words of Pink Floyd: welcome to the machine.

Posted by joanna @ 04/02/2005 01:14 PM EST