Get Out There
Our assignment this week was to do something we wouldn't ordinarily do or haven't had time to do. There have been a ton of gallery shows and installations I've been meaning to go see this semester, but my schedule keeps getting in the way. So, this week, I took the time to go to Madison Square Park to check out Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pulse Park, which pulses lights in rhythm with your heartbeat, and Tadashi Kawamata's Tree Huts installation.
Pulse Park was quite lovely, but suffered by comparison to the artist's rendering that accompanied the publicity about it. I anticipated being able to walk around amidst softly pulsing white light, but in reality you were not allowed to enter the lit space, and the grass over which the lights played gave the entire piece a green cast that I found rather cold and technical.
Because Pulse Park need to be viewed after dusk, viewing of the Tree Huts suffered a bit, but there was an interesting spookiness to their vague presence above us.
