Ann Hamilton: Tropos, 1993 : October 7, 1993-June 19, 1994, Dia Center for the ArtsFor Tropos, Ann Hamilton spread a sea of horsehair across the 5000 square feet of a factory building. Varying in color and sewn together in bundles, this hair was navigated by visitors, while in the middle of the room sat a lone figure at a desk, whose task was to read and burn each line of a text in a book; from somewhere outside the building came the strangulated garble of a man attempting speech. This surreal environment, with its attendant sense of dream landscape and half-formed associations, is classic Hamilton, at once seductive and disorienting. This book records the project. |
Contents
Preface Michael Govan | 55 |
Directors Acknowledgments | 57 |
A Splintered Syntax Lynne Cooke | 59 |
Copyright | |
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