Storytelling in Art: A Fictional Tour of Art History
Baltimore Museum of Art, December 11 2011
In this performance, I brought several alternative narratives to the Baltimore Museum of Art and led a group of participants through the museum on what appeared to be a legitimate art history lecture. Upon closer inspection the passer-by might have noticed that several of the professor's items of clothing were made of paper and that his textbook looked a little suspect. If these signs of fallacy or the questionable facts under discussion encouraged any visitors to do a little research and try to find out what was real, than the mission was a success.
Audio Excerpts from Tour
1948 Italian Panel
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Henri Matisse
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Piet Mondrian
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Jacob Epstein
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Alternate histories support freedom of thought and foster reimaginings of long held beliefs, but abandoning the historical record and the work of past brings one terribly close to an apocalyptic end-game of history. Can we play that dangerous game and still hold the truth close to heart? Or is it a lost cause to imagine the history books to hold anything but biased agendas?
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