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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Later in the song, she asks him for a comb (to fix her hair) and mentions that there’s going to be talk tomorrow – this is a song about sex, wanting it, having it, maybe having a long night of it by the fire, but it’s not a song about rape.
It’s a song about the desires even good girls have.” ―Slay Belle
persephonemagazine.com/2010/12/listening-while-feminist-i...
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“My next stop was Love Forever, a room that is mirrored on both the inside and the outside—my chance to be a peeping Tom, or rather a peeping Yayoi, if only for a minute. This six-sided chamber—first constructed in 1966, in part as a protest against the Vietnam War—was then reconstructed in 1994, and seems to hark back to Kusama’s childhood trauma. Instead of entering, you peer into it while another voyeur, catty-corner to you, can peer in at the same time. The room is radiant, and literally hot, because of the lights inside it. Although the view you have is abstract—an infinite hexagonal pattern of colored lights that reminded me of old Broadway—it also feels a bit dirty and illicit. You are aware of the reflection of your own eyes across the room and also of the eyes of whoever else is gazing into the box at the same time. It’s embarrassing by design. The viewer is the voyeur, and the voyeur is you.” ―Sarah Boxer
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/yayoi-kusama...
I'll probably lose sleep wondering if I should have picked Jem for this shoot instead of Jerrica, but what's done is done.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Drawn, yet again, to the lure of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I went to see Wheeler’s chamber. And I am happy I did, because I had an epiphany about exactly what sort of art moment we are in. Although I did not experience the sublime silence I was hoping for (I was actually overwhelmed by a pulsating ringing in my ears), I had an important encounter on my way out of the museum. I spied the stanchions that signal a wait-in-line-to-see experience. I stood and waited. For what? A toilet. It was a solid-gold toilet, titled America—the work of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, installed in one of the museum’s bathrooms. Visitors, after standing in line, can not only behold and admire the toilet, but also use it. ‘Its participatory nature, in which viewers are invited to make use of the fixture individually and privately’, the museum’s brochure notes, ‘allows for an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art’. Intimacy indeed.” ―Sarah Boxer
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/yayoi-kusama...
The Pulse Witch 23 electronic sound box.
Demo video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdb6NEecAUU .
This box is based on a "pulse width oscillator" circuit, wherein the 4 basic parameters can be adjusted manually or automatically (the latter via LFO or external CV). The idea is that it can be played performatively, or used as a standalone installation. The range section is a bit more complicated: 8 different capacitors can be selected manually via the 3-bit switches, or pseudo-randomly, at a rate that can be controlled manually or automatically.
The cool feature of course is the infinity mirror. The LEDs therein echo the state or value of the various sections, e.g. oscillator rate, feedback level and range choice. The meters show the internal voltage level ultimately controlling the speed of the oscillators.
For Burroughs and the "23 enigma" watchers... the heart of the circuit uses a CMOS 4023 chip, the range on the meters go from 2 to 23 (in prime numbers).
Completed November 2013.
My page about my handmade electronic sound boxes with info/demos is here: www.jamesschidlowsky.ca/electronics.html.
The Hirshhorn Museum's last weekend to display Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Exhibit. It was extremely difficult to obtain tickets into this museum for the last several months but I finally won the lottery and got in on a special event "The After Party" on the last weekend before Yayoi's display will move on to another city.
She has a series of 6 special art displays that are extra special. The lines are long and worth the wait to see what is inside. Once inside, you are only allowed 20 to 30 seconds to enjoy her artwork and LED lightshow. Then you must exit. I barely got inside and then bam.... the doors opened again. But those are the rules.
Then there is the Obliteration Room. Completely furnished by white IKEA furniture. You are given a sheet of stickers that you are allowed to place anywhere you wish! Oh what JOY! The best part was there wasn't a time limit. There was also a real piano! I suddenly turned and watched all of the sacred security guards enter the Obliteration Room and say goodnight. The Hirshhorn was soon to close. The pianist stood up and took her bow. My husband and I said grace and had our good night kiss. It was a good date worth the wait.
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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ―Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Can all this positive thinking be actively harmful?” ―Laurie Penny
“Carl Cederström and André Spicer, authors of The Wellness Syndrome, certainly think so, arguing that obsessive ritualization of self-care comes at the expense of collective engagement, collapsing every social problem into a personal quest for the good life.” ―Laurie Penny
More photos of my dad's awesome $400 deluxe infinity mirror!
I SHALL DESTROY YOU ALL!!! MUAHAHAHHAH. I think this is going to have to become an avatar. I can crop the camera out on top and it will pretty much look like I have beams coming form my eyes.
BACKSTORY: My parents had a Christmas party. I got to see some of my family that I don't see often, a friend from Petersburg, and my old next-door neighbors (from 1983-1999).
infinity mirror, reflection.
Mom and Dad's house, Stafford, Virginia.
December 8, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/blue-food...
Unfolding Buds, 2015. Stuffed cotton, metal and acrylic.
I Love Myself, I Adore Myself So, 2010. Acrylic on canvas.
The Broad
Today we are half way through the 365 (I know technically it should be 182.5 days but my O Level maths says we're going to round this up!). I thought I'd do a selfie to mark the occasion. This is nothing to do with the fact that I was totally stumped for other ideas and had to improvise with a bathroom mirror... oh no.
The Hirshhorn Museum's last weekend to display Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Exhibit. It was extremely difficult to obtain tickets into this museum for the last several months but I finally won the lottery and got in on a special event "The After Party" on the last weekend before Yayoi's display will move on to another city.
She has a series of 6 special art displays that are extra special. The lines are long and worth the wait to see what is inside. Once inside, you are only allowed 20 to 30 seconds to enjoy her artwork and LED lightshow. Then you must exit. I barely got inside and then bam.... the doors opened again. But those are the rules.
Then there is the Obliteration Room. Completely furnished by white IKEA furniture. You are given a sheet of stickers that you are allowed to place anywhere you wish! Oh what JOY! The best part was there wasn't a time limit. There was also a real piano! I suddenly turned and watched all of the sacred security guards enter the Obliteration Room and say goodnight. The Hirshhorn was soon to close. The pianist stood up and took her bow. My husband and I said grace and had our good night kiss. It was a good date worth the wait.
"Infinity room" created by Yayoi Kusama, part of the Infinity Mirrors exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/blue-food...
Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
Accumulation of Stardust
2001
Like a bad case of measles, red dots have spread all over the Art Gallery of Ontario -- even onto the windows on the top floor which provide views of the city's iconic CN Tower.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/6-perfect-john-muir-qu...
Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
Dots Obsession—Love Transformed into Dots
2007, installed 2017
Vinyl balloons, balloon dome with mirror room, peep-in mirror dome, and video projection
Courtesy Victoria Miro, London
"In 1996, Kusama began creating a series of installations incorporating polka-dotted balloons. Hanging from the ceiling and occupying the floor, these inflatable objects disrupt the viewer’s path. Visitors can enter a mirrored room inside one of the balloons or peer inside another. The work engages visitors on contrasting scales: the tiny micro-space seen through a peephole and the macro life-sized space that envelops the viewer within the installation. A video monitor hanging from the ceiling of the gallery features Kusama singing one of her poems."
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Wellness has become an ideology.” ―Carl Cederström & André Spicer
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Can all this positive thinking be actively harmful?” ―Laurie Penny
“Carl Cederström and André Spicer, authors of The Wellness Syndrome, certainly think so, arguing that obsessive ritualization of self-care comes at the expense of collective engagement, collapsing every social problem into a personal quest for the good life.” ―Laurie Penny
thebaffler.com/latest/laurie-penny-self-care
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/6-perfect-john-muir-qu...
Check out my dad's infinity mirror -- that thing is awesome ($400). It's basically the "pro" version -- we used to own the $25 Spencer's Gifts version (seen HERE), which had more functionality but far less bling.
infinity mirror.
Mom and Dad's house, Stafford, Virginia.
March 31, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com.
More photos of my dad's awesome $400 deluxe infinity mirror!
When photo'ed from above, the Christmas tree is a centerpiece that does not really directly interact with the infinity mirror much. The lights from this angle, however, seem to be arranged such that the "grey dots that aren't there" optical illusion occurs (slightly like this picture). Does anyone else see or not see this?
BACKSTORY: My parents had a Christmas party. I got to see some of my family that I don't see often, a friend from Petersburg, and my old next-door neighbors (from 1983-1999).
Christmas tree, infinity mirror, reflection.
Mom and Dad's house, Stafford, Virginia.
December 8, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com