Impressions of Inman
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A Multimedia Showcase of the People and Places of Inman Square.
[[The pictures are in my other pants.]]
ABZ Gallery; 186 Hampshire St.
Jan 13-15, 2007 10 AM – 7 PM [MLK day today! Last chance :)]
Well worth the short walk from Harvard. Multimedia in this case means video with sound and slideshows on three screens with attention to temporal relations between the screens. I don’t know the word the professional art crowd would use. I call it an ensemble piece, because it clearly depends on synergy between the components. Ordinarily, I would find a picture of laundry in a dryer unexciting, but in context it clearly served a definite purpose. The Harvard students who did the work [their names are in my other pants] clearly had a good relationship with the community in order to get the shots they did. For me, the piece de resistance was the faces of ‘local color’ including but not limited to Issy. [He’s holding a flower pot in the show.] You may have seen Issy around the Pit. His principle axes are more nearly equal than most of us. And he is a lively wit. Stay for a full cycle. I think it’s about 30 min.
