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I’d hate to be the custodian charged with keeping an eye on that exhibit. 
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Meh, if he’d managed to build a spinor out of aluminum tubes then I’d really be impressed.
The sphere spins but the tubes never cross… 
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This is quite fun work, as is some of his other stuff. (Amusingly, looking him up to see more work, I thought, “wow, this guy looks like a k-pop singer” only to discover there is a singer with the same stage name. Pretty sure it’s not the same guy.)
It occurs to me that if you replace “motor and some stretch-flex duct” with “paint,” it would be a semi-accurate description of painting in the post-photography era, and an encapsulation of the common criticism by people who are ignorant of art. Or, really, art in any medium - it’s all, on some level, “just” fucking around with the materials, trying to see what works (within, granted, a complex contextual/conceptual framework, which is the tricky bit).
I imagine it’s a work that requires a fair amount of maintenance, in addition to being hell on the floors.
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Me when I try to reattach the tube from the dryer to the vent that is in a very tight space.
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This takes me right back to the dawn of Channel 4 when they had several shows with Australian Interpretive Dance Troupes. Fun stuff.
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Pilobolus?
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Kinda reminds me of some of the kinetic artworks of Arthur Ganson.
I especially liked his “Inchworms” piece, which is powered by you pushing a cart around:
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