NAMOC-part II

This was in an awesome room with a fiberglass hill for a floor. A crowd of us sat at the top of the hill watching this video playing on a wall opposite us. It was called 'The Subjectivity of Repitition' I'm not sure what the connection between the title and the video were, but it was really interesting to watch. There was a man character who interacted with a black version of himself, they cut each other up and made more of themselves with parts black, parts grey, then comprised a huge conglomeration of bodies in an odd shape, all partially black and grey. Then there was a orcas whale that the main character had some relationship with. Later we saw the conglomeration of them on the whale underwater. Other interesting things happened too, all seemingly unrelated. It was like a dreamscape, hard to relate to reality, but involving imagery that we can recognize. I took out of it the theme of uniting mankind, but that's just my perspective.

This was a room of lasers that we could walk through. It felt so strange to be in the middle of them because the room was pitch black except for the beams of light that felt 3d.

This was a 3d image that was all an illusion. It looked like a mound with babies crawling down it on all sides, crawling under the bottom lip of the shape. In the reflection on the floor where the babies were theoretically crawling, there were skeletons instead...



This was a seemingly 3-d image floating inside a large bubble. The images were changing constantly. Next to the bubbles on the floor was a machine blowing big wobbly bubbles that popped soon after filling with air.

This was an interactive piece on the wall. It was a sort of scanner. The man whose image is shown here had just stood there up against the surface. He stepped back and as the white vertical bar, that just 'scanned' his image completes it's cycle, he could view his own image on the wall in front of him. I did it too, but I can't find the picture I took of myself...I'll look for it and post it later maybe.

This was a huge screen at the end of a dark tunnel that showed the image of floating naked bodies. They didn't look like real people. They were floating in a water-like substance slowly, to an ethereal music playing in the room.

These three paintings are by Gerhard Richter, a German abstract painter. They're based on the theme of landscape.
One floor up from this modern exhibit of German art, there was a show of older German painters-their names I didn't recognize, so I don't remember them now, but they looked a lot like some of Picasso's work, and Franz Mark's work.