Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...again. Formed in 1979, this British group began as a punk band, but Journey to the End of the Night, their first full-length release in two years, retains few of those roots. Experimenting with a blend of folk and alternative sound, the Mekons bring melancholic, brooding melodies to light. Unfortunately, the album's new material falls short of the expectations one would have of a band with such history...
...exhibited while unopened, and where their contents are now on display. The walls bracketing the doorway are painted in saturated blue and red-orange, and a little vestibule stands between the observer and the room, so that the flickering and buzzing of neon tubes is registered before the blue light of the interior stuns the senses. Pronged triads of blue neon look as though they are pressing through the ceiling, their phosphorescence the kind we latently suspect of causing cancer. The boxes are mounted at eye level on brief supports, as though enshrined in a latter-day temple...
...Just as Antonakos's other neon installations take on different qualities from the changing effects of light and space, Time Boxes 2000 is about the actuation of the work of art in the surround of time. When the project was inaugurated in 1974, its departure from a concurrent mode of conceptual art, the earthworks movement, could not have been more pronounced. Both forms of conceptual work take on the way changing conditions act upon the art object. But whereas earthworks make a cult of entropy and the dissipation of the art object through time, Antonakos's time capsules are instead...
...maintains 300 million acres of federal lands in the western U.S. and Alaska, with nary a fluorescent light. And forget about casual Fridays...
...ordeal may not be over. Chilean judge Juan Guzman is currently considering some 59 lawsuits brought against Pinochet, and the judge wants more medical tests to establish his fitness to stand trial. Of course Pinochet has plenty of legal grounds to hold off the prosecutors, particularly in light of the legal amnesty he insisted on as a condition for allowing a return to civilian rule. But that doesn't change the fact that now, even in his homeland, the general will have to hold the prosecutors at bay, and an ignominious exile from public life looks like the best-case...