Holy crap I love Anish Kapoor. Go check out the video and photographs for Shooting into the Corner at today and tomorrow. There's such great richness behind the "cannon," the red wax, the context of the gallery, the artist as the person behind the trigger...not to mention that it creates a damned beautiful installation.
Watch the video all the way through -- not only for the payoff of the cannon actually firing, but the nervous laughter that follows from the unseen art lovers in the gallery. For me, their laughter triggered the same vaguely uncomfortable feeling I had when hearing Letterman's audience laugh at his sex-with-staffers admission: you know it's the "wrong" reaction, but that if you were in their place you'd do the exact same thing.
You know, there's something very Indian about this work. The shade of red, the fact that the pigment smears, the ritual around this loud noise... it all reminds me very much of going to the temple as a kid. Great video. :)
Posted by: Anil Dash | Oct 08, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Well, he was born in Bombay. May explain some of that. :)
Posted by: Michael Sippey | Oct 09, 2009 at 07:40 AM