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Benôit Maubrey (American artist, born 1952); Hans Peter Kuhn (German artist, born 1952)
Maubrey b. 1952 of French parents in Washington, D.C.; B.A., Georgetown Univ., 1975; since 1980 lives in Berlin, Germany [agent note] |
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American |
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performed August 15,1986 (performance) |
| description |
A public performance work sponsored by the Mattress Factory and curated by Michael Olijnyk. Seven ordinary people walked through busy parts of town dressed in ordinary, but identical, denim pants and jackets and white painters' caps. Nonchalant, they moved in a group or alone, waiting for buses, reading newspapers, window shopping. In their wake was laughter. Bees buzzing. Telephones ringing. Loud hammering. Unintelligible words in another language. Commotion. Coming from them, in unison, broadcast from circular speakers hidden under their jackets, attached to concealed tape players.
Mattress Factory [contemporary art museum]; http://site.mattress.org/ (accessed 1/22/2015) [description source] |
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| location |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States [performance]
Performed in the Oakland neighborhood and downtown Pittsburgh [location note] |
| material |
seven human actors, seven denim jackets with custom speakers, seven audio cassetes, seven pairs of matching denim pants, seven white painters caps |
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| source |
Core 4 Sample Database (VCat) |
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| stylePeriod |
Conceptual; Twentieth century |
| subject |
cityscapes; contemporary (1960 to present); Mattress Factory; sound recordings |
| technique |
recording |
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| title |
Audio Jackets [cited, true, en] |
| worktype |
visual works; time-based works; performance art |
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| image courtesy Molly Tighe, Mattress Factory |
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