Photography and Imaging 2

GAME: How to Show Work at the MoMA

OBJECT: To get over "fear of contamination and corruption by something that is unknown or appears unknowable" (Batchelor, 22).

INSTRUCTIONS:
Go to the new show with five other friends, each fully dressed and painted in one color of the rainbow. Walk around the exhibit together on a packed weekend (Friday evenings are the best). When finished, take off your shoes in the exhibit, hang out in your colored socks, lounge around, sit in circles, make color patterns out of yourselves (another color wheel!), play clapping games, do a color dance, note the hesitant tourists who stare at you wondering what the hell art is if this kid painted red is staring back at me uh oh is he walking towards me just walk away quickly, pose with tourists as they take pictures with you because you are displayed next to Andy and Duchamp, hug each other, make fun, reinvent color today as you show yourselves at the MoMA.

PARTY-POOPER: Sit at home by yourself and wallow while looking at this to take the lonely pain away.

MoMA just opened Color Chart two days ago, ceiling to floor with COLOR, COLOR, COLOR of BIG artists, an enviable collection (David Batchelor, the author of Chromophobia, has work in this show along with many many other influential artists). Lots of eye candy, worth a visit.