Voice Over: An Art, Criticism and Poetry Project
By Holly Crawford
New York City
Voice Over–Andy Goldsworthy on the Roof, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This is what you see on the roof………………………….. .…………………………………. Wow! Look
at this! The fog great atmospherics…………… …………………..I pressed
it accidentally………………….. ………………….What is this suppose to be?
…………………… ………………….. Big smile, Big smile. …………Mike! Get off it!………. Let’s take
a picture. What is it?………………………….. I want a family picture here. ……………..You want to
take a picture? ………I didn’t hear the clicking sound. You push down and then push
down again……………………………………………….…………..He kind of balances things. Ok.
–Holly Crawford
Voice Over–Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gate, Central Park, New York, The Metropolitan
Art Museum.
Do you … … …
think you …
can
wait …
… …
… I’m
not quite getting it,
but anyway
… … …
… … …
… I
think it’s
… … art
… (touch)
… there’s
something …
haunting …
about
it.–HC
Voice Over–Modigliani, Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum.
We’re moving pretty slowly
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…………….….. Are we waiting? We could go and come back in 15 minutes.… Why not?……………
. ……………….. …………….It’s a special exhibit. …Look a legal parking space. Do you want to move
the car?……………. There’s….. a…………………. .……line……………………
.. inside…………………………. .………………………………. I’m waiting in line right now at the
Jewish Museum. The Jewish Museum………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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.Are you in line? …………………………………………………………………..This is one of his sculptures. You can see the African influence. Did he go to Africa? No…..…..Some of these are famous. He had…the reclining woman. Some of this stuff doesn’t have his style. ……………… What number is this? It’s a little confusing. Didn’t Spinoza convert in the end? They’re not telling saying what the reason is? Why is this painting hanging upside down?…………………………….. She was a smart lady. She had a lot of money……………………..…. ………………………………………I like the way he texturizes the skin. …The legs over here with the hair on them……….. Do you want to see something else? —HC
Voice Over–Childe Hassam, The Metropolitan Art Museum
…..I’m sure we’ve been there. It seems like…but, that doesn’t look like…but it could be…I like that one. …Just look at the green outside that window. … Turn that thing off. Honey, turn it off……he was married to…………………….. ……………the American flag………………………………. —HC
Voice Over–Get Off: Exploring the Pleasure Principle, The Museum of Sex.
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……………………..(point)…
it…um…………………………
……..(whisper)……………………………………………….…..(whisper)…………………………………
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..(whisper, whisper) .………(point)………. hee-hee………………………. ………………………………..
…………………………………………….do you want to….–HC
Voice Over–Indexing the World, The Metropolitan Art Museum.
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It’s
…
Spring
…
Street
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…
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D�ssuldorf
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…
ah….–HC
Voice Over–PPOW, Von Lintel Gallery, Pink Blossoms, and Gallery Henoch.
There’s
nothing
upstairs. —HC
Voice Over–Rudolf Stingel, Plan B, Grand Central Terminal-Vanderbilt Hall.
We’re on the Metro North train…that’s …
Right…………………………..
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Shh…shh………………………………………….funny…….…it’s gorgeous…high traffic….you’d think that it would just disappear…disintegrate………………………………………..well, I guess it was designed by him…..White Plains…the carpet is the exhibition…or really….the fabric…art?…whether it’s art or not I just generally like it………………………………..this is the installation….I’m walking on it?……..some times they have events in the area………………………………….…………………27,000 square feet of carpet ………using…..emphasizes…I don’t ….what the hell is he talking about. It’s carpet, broadloom carpet. Somebody got conned. Wonder what he got paid? A rose, is a rose is a rose. So this is what 27,000 square feet looks like. It looks like a 1940s living room …………………………..what is the pattern, exactly? That goes to that, that goes to that and there are strips and that goes to…..–HC
Voice Over–Group Exhibit, Lemons Contemporary.
……We could……………….. you just found the right spots………..this could be….. ……..I love it………………..
………I am just starting to….. relax………………….there is another thing that just came to mind.–HC
Voice Over–Group Show, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery.
This is the summer group show of the gallery artists…r-i-g-h-t, right, right. —HC
Voice Over–Seismic Disturbance, Lohin Geduld Gallery.
Do you know what it means?
Or what he thinks about? Anything else here?
Is he an old guy?
Oh……………………………………………………………
I like the middle one.
I think they should be separate paintings.
…
I guess they’re things that have happened
all in the same space. —HC
Voice Over–Counter Culture, Flux Factory, Secret Places, 2004, Bowery Martial Arts, New Museum.
Hi.
…hi, ………I’m here….
You need the password?
……The password?…um…here it is…you need to say it…
.. . ‘gert frobe’…
what’s the password?………
..How does this thing open?
…Do you have a butterfly knife? No..–HC
Voice Over–Lot-EK:Mobile Dwelling Unit, Whitney Museum.
[empty]
Voice Over–Ana Mendieta: Earth Body Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985, Whitney Museum.
…she died….
(SILENCE)
Did you like the show?–HC
Voice Over–Ed Ruscha and Photography, Whitney Museum.
…that’s the impression I got…in that sense…I tried to do that years ago…before the big buildings……I guess… thought this was a whole new way of looking at the world…um.–HC
Voice Over–Cotton Puffs, Q-tips, Smoke and Mirrors, The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, Whitney Museum.
collection, Los Angeles, interesting, time, words, drew, gas stations, if, I, choose, wonder, surface tension, drool, better, grapes, drool, better, water, sky and water, more sophisticated, kooks, kooks, see, think, like, love, kind of cool, end.–HC
Beacon, New York
Voice Over–Agnes Martin’s Early Paintings 1957-67, Dia:Beacon.
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New York City
Voice Over–Franz West, Recent Sculpture, Lincoln Center & Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Public Art Fund
touch it
(bang, bang)
I touched it
(bang)
look, look, look
(bang)
(touch)
(bang)
(lie)
(lean)…(sit)…(sit)
(bang, bang, bang, ratty tap-tap-tap)
(touch)
(climb)… (stand) … (touch)
(sit)…(photo)
(touch)
(touch)
(touch)–HC
Holly Crawford, July-August 2004
Holly Crawford is an artist, poet, and art historian, who now lives in New York. www.art-poetry.info
Voice Over© Holly Crawford, 2004.
