Instillation

Our group chose to use these two pieces from the M.I.A. for the Instillation blog this week.  I personally think that they both have a lot in common.  They both are made up of lines although one is vertical and one is horizontal.  More obvious to myself is that America is known for our professional sports.  With baseball being such a big sport in this country I thought it was a good fit that the bats are warped and cut on the one piece and it says try your best one the other.  The American flag also tying into the American dream had kind of a strange impact on it all.  I think the two pieces together have a good sense of irony.  

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"Rejects From The Bat Factory"

Mark Sfirri

1993

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"Give It Your Best"

Charles Toucey Coiner

1942

Postmodern Standpoint

I went to the Walker Art Center on Tuesday and chose a piece called Necklace CNN.  It was done by Thomas Hirschhorn and I picked it because it almost made me laugh.  For me I think it applies to postmodernism just about anyway I look at it.  Its a giant chain necklace made of plastic and cardboard with the CNN logo hanging from it.  It looked to be about fifteen or twenty feet high and is hanging  about twenty feet off the ground.  It was neatly wrapped in gold wrapping paper with tape to give it that "Bling bling."  It definitely to me applies to this day in age with the media and the cross references it makes as to what is popular.