March 31, 2006
The Unbearable Lightness of Hydroponic Lettuce
Yonks ago a British satirical magazine called Private Eye used to run a column called Pseuds Corner, celebrating the very best in the pretentious. This exhibit called "Tales Without Grounds" at the BUIA Gallery in New York, would qualify for that corner.
The work revolves around a hydroponic lettuce cultivation complex in which the artist, Eve K Tremblay, has posited her cast of characters. In this situation, the lettuce is used as a transitional object, via the thinking of Winnicott, and therefore as an in-between entity upon which the characters project their desires, emotions, needs, and potentially even their neuroses. In this way, the lettuce is used as an object through which to mediate the surrounding world. In this way, the characters at hand play, contemplate, and exist within and around the hydroponic lettuce cultivation complex ultimately to discover themselves.
Lettuce pray the show is a great success.
– Fenton Bailey
[Ed note: We're thinking why not make a day of it. Spend the afternoon browsing the lettuce show at the BUIA, go to dinner – you'll fancy a salad – then find a cinema playing Drawing Restraint 9.]
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Comments
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| March 31, 2006 5:37 PM
that made me giggle, or perhaps they can catch Basic Instinct 2 which according to the NYT makes references to Lacon
-- momorg | March 31, 2006 5:53 PM
im panting for basic instinct 2. the reviews seem so full of promise. manohla tiredass from the nyt hated it; "watching trash like this is degrading"... so you know its gotta have something redeeming about it. and the LA Times drooled over its sleek surfaces. Can't wait!
-- fb | March 31, 2006 6:11 PM
I agree with you about Manohla, second rate Pauline Kael who champions all the WRONG B movies in an attempt to escape the snobbery of film criticism.
that aside, I think I need to check out BI2. On the topic of second rate, is it me or is Sharon Stone the new (albeit lesser) Faye Dunaway?
-- momorg | March 31, 2006 7:34 PM
or is sharon stone the new elizabeth berkley? we need a new Showgirls.
-- fb | March 31, 2006 10:09 PM
Attention span, people! How did the lettuce-fields-as-art post turn into a Sharon Stone-as-the-new-Elizabeth Berkley discussion group? How? Where is the connecting tissue?
-- The Editor | April 1, 2006 9:52 AM
the connecting tissue is lettuce.....lettuce entertain you.....lettuce make you cry ....lettuce do a few tricks, some old and then some CAMP TRICKS....from now on, whenever i hear LETTUCE i will think SHARON STONE and ELIZABETH BERKLEY
-- Randy b | April 1, 2006 1:43 PM
BI2 didn't make a whole lot of lettuce on opening day. 1.1 million, the same as Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector which is in its second week. ouch. I think they should still go ahead with a BI3 about the adventures of Catherine's daughter who shares a lot of mommy's bad habits, as portrayed by Ms. Lohan
-- momorg | April 1, 2006 2:13 PM
it still exists!
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=pseuds_corner&