September 02, 2007
Art Installation: The Men in Black Cycle
(detail)
In the assemblage How Does Your Light Shine?, three animatronic Chihuahuas atop the glowing mountains bob their heads rhythmically to Three Dog Night's 1973 hit Shambala in a multi-media investigation of the links between Shambala, star system Sirius and Men in Black.
Artists' Statement: The MIB Cycle
"Our recent work involves the cross-fertilization of popular culture (that which is sold) and folk culture (that which is told). Pop culture is traditionally thought to appropriate folk culture and not the other way around, but in this era of McLuhan's global village when Mickey Mouse can appear in a shaman's vision, the relationship between popular and folk culture has become more democratic. Accordingly, our current work combines pop and folk elements in a way that gives both equal weight and gives neither teleological precedence."
http://www.davisanddavis.org/mib_cycle/index.html
~Have Hollywood's recent MIB movies made artworks like the above irrelevant or added to their relevance?
Posted by Stubbornson at September 2, 2007 08:44 AM