The trip to the Whitney Museum was a visit I was looking forward to but wsa not sure what I would ultimately get out of it. Dan Graham’s work was fascinating. The audience’s interaction was so imperative to his work it made me want to delve into such inclusions in my studies. It was easy to get lost in Graham’s work throughout the exhibit. The over emphasis on the viewer interacting with his installations, especially when it came to the room where a constant video recording was going on, gave me another outlook on my own work and generated some new ideas I would like to try out.
The movie, “Play Pause” by Sadie Benning was one of my favorite parts of the day. Despite its playful nature, I really enjoyed the very basic drawings she used along with the background noise, colors, and even music. Everything was so basic in its form, but had such strong and at times, humorous messages. Despite the very child like drawings, the artist did a more then effective job relaying her video to her audience. The basic and background city noise worked wonderfully, even though there was no dialogue used throughout her film. It did not need the use of verbal communication and without it, added to the thought of how we do so easily communicate to people without words.
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