I started off at Hart House and honestly, there were just way too many people there and eventhough I was so interested in what was happening, I wanted to leave. At Hart House's Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, I enjoyed the installation 'Hold that Thought'. If I am thinking of the right one, it was an installation of 4 rooms and in each room was a couch and basic furnishings with a television that had a collage of t.v. show clips. Each room was different. I asked my friend what she thought, she had no clue. I thought that it was interesting how viewers participated within the installation by sitting in the rooms and watching these recognizable t.v. clips transition from one to another. At times, people laughed at the same time, from different rooms. This to me, seemed to be a commentary on the social activity of watching television. We have somehow lost our connection with other people by the act of watching television but, still also try to connect with people through television. Fictional or our 'real' life relationships. If this installation / intervention can somehow relate to our course, I can say that it may have been an attempt to bring to the viewer's minds, 'our' act of watching television and the disconnect or connect we make during the act of watching television. Make sense? Hope so. Here are a few pics below.
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Jen,
What you were saying about the connect/disconnect we make while watching television makes complete sense. My friends and I also saw this at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. One of my friends understood the set up of furniture as representing the living rooms of varrying social classes. This may or may not have been the artist's intent but it does still work towards the theme of disconnect/connect in that a person or group of people may be disconnected from society in one way (monetarily) but connected in another (through media).
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