On a visit to see Alex and Lindsey in Brooklyn, we walked over to DUMBO. The blue lights of this installation caught our eyes–a beautiful shade of blue–so we entered what were basically the remaining four walls of an old tobacco warehouse, now a public open-air space along the waterfront.
The installation, Origin, by the UK group United Visual Artists, with sound by Scanner, was a rectilinear scaffolding built on a stage-y platform. We weren’t the only people wandering through and wondering why build a non-building. And why the percussive flashes of what might have been words. I think it’s fair to say Alex got the most out of it. He said it reminded him of being in the city, overhearing conversation fragments and experiencing the tall buildings and city lights.
When I read that it came from the UK, all I could think of was the cost of shipping this. Could it possibly have been worth it?
