Visual Art Orange Traffic Cones, Lawn Chairs, and Storage Boxes
posted by June 20 at 15:57 PM
onDennis Oppenheim’s giant orange traffic cones are not the only new thing at the Olympic Sculpture Park.
Up today are two new benches by Roy McMakin: a regular-sized green lawn chair made not of green plastic but of painted bronze, and a squat object that looks like a cardboard storage box but is made of steel with porcelain enamel. They stand next to a (concrete) bench that is a work of art called Bench that had been sitting there for months already, but it is possible that nobody realized it was a work of art, because it was a bench.
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It's only a matter of time before there is a used condom made out of papier mache'd dollar bills and a Big Bear 40oz made of the glass of the Sistine Chapel.
So are people supposed to touch and sit on these things, and if not, what sadistic bastard installed them?
Some body is going to trip on that box and break their neck... (Either that or try to kick it and break their foot.)
This could be fun.... I'll be the random guy sitting on the bench asking random passers by to pick up and bring me my box as soon as I can figure out a believable context.
@3 have a cast on. I think that would be enough context.
If I am in a park and there's a bench, I don't care if it is a work of art. I'm sitting on it.
Judging by the worn grass in front, I think people are actually using the bench.
@4
Excellent... The plan comes together...
Ha! I totally sat on that bench. It was pretty uncomfortable, so I figured it must be a work of art even though I didn't see a sign.
Bench is easily the best piece at the Park. imho.
when are we all going to realize that this is just really stupid shit?
@10
I'm there already... Waiting for the rest of you to catch up.
They had it taped off yesterday with Yellow Caution Tape ... must have been when they were installing the File Box and chair
i'm going to take a 100% real shit on top of that box. it's my statement on the value of the sculpture park.
see you never, seattle...
Our title is URBAN SEATTLE - feces on box - from the minds of SLOG
spray it with pLastic
public art with human rekoning
and the peril of the homeless or the drunken who ate top many prunes early in the evening
I like it, glue a newspaper and cheap old style reading glasses to the bench
and subtle touch, dog crap right next to the bench, Dan's poodle maybe
and, FINALLY, a good use for the do not touch sign
@13: Now that's the kind of inspired creativity I can get behind.
I wonder if anyone thinks of the giant traffic cones as art instead of Dept of Transportation equipment for Hummers...
@1--I think thats the new SuttonBeresCuller piece!
Bench is super duper comfy. As far as concrete benches go.
Just what I would want to see on my day off in the park- an office file box. Awesome. So relaxing!
OK already! Everyday objects as art!
Marcel Duchamp, Warhol, Oldenburg
I get it
At least create something using Plastic Lawn Chairs as a medium like a whale or something. Oh right that has been done already.
I'm all for somebody crapping all over that "art."
For legal purposes, you can get the same point across/disturb innocent passers-by with fake, "novelty" turds, and not get in as much trouble with the law. On the other hand, if you don't do it for real, Chuck Berry might not visit your city.
Jon Shirley's Microsoft moolah can buy a lot of plastic dog crap. This is what happens when old white people, who don't like other old, white people (SAM board members), give $25 million to start a public dumping ground for their art collection. We're a bunch of ingrates.
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