Event #3

This week I was lucky enough to attend Janine Oleson’s “Production of Copper” at the Hammer Museum in Westwood. As soon as I walked into the exhibit I saw a large white wall with 3 projectors showing a video. There was also a smaller TV screen which seemed to have a thick slab of plastic covering the screen with a long copper wire running out of the front and it connected to a clay speaker in the corner. In the center of the room was a rug or floor mat on a small podium.  

The whole room including all of the pieces

For me, the three projectors and the TV with copper wiring were the most intriguing. I really liked how the copper wire wasn’t your ordinary wire which is coated and straight. This wire was raw and close to its purest form. The TV screen was showing the making of this wire and all of the steps it took and how many people it took to construct. Those people were on the wall projectors and they were in a cave talking and discovering their surroundings. They then left the cave and appeared at a copper mine.

A small snapshot of the three projectors

Coming back to the rug in the middle of the room. This rug was said to be constructed by replicating two-dimensional grids which are commonly used in three-dimensional modeling software. I am not sure if these two ideas are linked but to me the rug and the symmetry of the copper mine were very intricate and beautiful.

My selfie with an event official at the exhibition


 This event was a little confusing as there was not much direction to follow, but overall I found it interesting as I was constantly trying to link all of the objects and pieces. This made the event much more unique than the previous two that I attended and this is why I would recommend it to my classmates.

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