VRA Core 4 Example 51: Public performance art |
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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.</display> <description source="Mattress Factory [contemporary art museum]; http://site.mattress.org/ (accessed 1/22/2015)">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.</description> </descriptionSet> <locationSet> <display>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States</display> <notes>Performed in the Oakland neighborhood and downtown Pittsburgh</notes> <location type="performance"> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7013927" extent="inhabited place">Pittsburgh</name> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7007710" extent="state">Pennsylvania</name> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7012149" extent="nation">United States</name> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000001" extent="continent">North and Central America</name> </location> </locationSet> <materialSet> <display>seven human actors, seven denim jackets with custom speakers, seven audio cassetes, seven pairs of matching denim pants, seven white painters caps</display> <notes/> <material/> </materialSet> <sourceSet> <display>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</display> <source> <name>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</name> </source> </sourceSet> <stylePeriodSet> <display>Conceptual; Twentieth century</display> <stylePeriod vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85139020">Twentieth century</stylePeriod> <stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300264827">Conceptual</stylePeriod> </stylePeriodSet> <subjectSet> <display>cityscapes; contemporary (1960 to present); Mattress Factory; sound recordings</display> <notes/> <subject> <term type="corporateName" vocab="LCNAF" refid="n 92095190 ">Mattress Factory</term> </subject> </subjectSet> <techniqueSet> <display>recording</display> <notes/> <technique vocab="AAT" refid="300077610">recording</technique> </techniqueSet> <titleSet> <display>Audio Jackets</display> <title type="cited" pref="true" xml:lang="en">Audio Jackets</title> </titleSet> <worktypeSet> <display>visual works; time-based works; performance art</display> <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300121445">performance art</worktype> </worktypeSet> </work> <image id="i_146" href="http://www.core.vraweb.org/examples/html/example051_full.html" refid="146" source="VRA Core Oversight Committee, Core 4 Sample Records"> <dateSet> <display>8/15/1986 (creation)</display> <notes/> <date/> </dateSet> <measurementsSet> <display>18 MB</display> <notes/> <measurements/> </measurementsSet> <relationSet> <relation type="imageOf" refid="45" source="Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)"/> </relationSet> <rightsSet> <display>undetermined</display> <rights/> </rightsSet> <sourceSet> <display>Mattress Factory [contemporary art museum]; http://site.mattress.org/</display> <source> <name/> <refid type="URI">http://site.mattress.org/</refid> </source> </sourceSet> <techniqueSet> <display>digital imaging</display> <notes/> <technique/> </techniqueSet> <titleSet> <display>View of the seven participants in front of an empty store window with passerby</display> <title type="generalView">View of the seven participants in front of an empty store window with passerby</title> </titleSet> <worktypeSet> <display>digital image</display> <notes/> <worktype/> </worktypeSet> </image> </vra> |
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