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Monday, January 26, 2009

Visual Art Currently Hanging

Posted by on Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:18 PM

What We Do Is Also Secret (2009), by Coco Howard and Spencer Moody, installation, 40 pounds wool and 50 yards polar fleece

At VAIN, in a small and creaky room upstairs.

What you can't get from this video is what it's like to touch the room. Every surface is hand-felted. Including underfoot. Sofffft.*

(*The artists want people to use the art before it's destroyed at the end of the next month—for photo shoots, for videos, whatever. Email the artists. More of Howard's work is here.)

 

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1
I like the spooky look of a "gale force(d) wind" at the end of the video displayed.

Perhaps somewhere out there in "papoose land", there's a play antagonists and protagonists "dukeing it out" for the benefit of clean t-pees everywhere.

After all... love is paramount.
Posted by daniel on January 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM
2
must mr. moody and ms. howard borrow from the germs for this? makes sense it is in a hair salon for some reason. use it people, use it.

blah.
Posted by birdy num num on January 26, 2009 at 10:11 PM
3
I really want to see this. Thanks for the coverage. I hope its open to the public more than Saturdays. I happened upon the upstairs of Anne Bonney once and noticed a work studio - I realize now it might have been coco.

I really adore any workspace that reminds me of my moms sewing room - a little cluttered and transient but ultimately some reference to the crafts that I appreciate.
Posted by Diana on January 27, 2009 at 2:18 AM
4
Looks like the set of a middle school play inspired by Pan's Labyrinth or something...should've stayed secret.

Let me guess: they're claiming they wanted it to suck.



Posted by a on January 27, 2009 at 9:44 AM
5
it's really an true installation that you have to be standing in to properly get it. I loved it. It made me feel funny
Posted by KELLY O on January 27, 2009 at 11:42 AM
6
It gave me a swoopy feeling too, when I stood inside...
Posted by itsrobespierremitchell on January 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM

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