NGV: Seconds from disaster!
This page from the National Gallery of Victoria What’s On – May-Jun 08 booklet shows visitors naively viewing the Sidney Nolan exhibition, unaware of the imminent dangers. Look closely and you see that the visitor on the left has her stiletto caught in the floor grill. Alas, we’re not shown the frame of her crashing back onto her coccyx.
In this age of interactive performance art this was a natural progression: the gallery becomes one large installation, and the toppling tourists an integral part of the piece. This is art that affects the viewer; art in which the viewer is recognised and acknowledged. The artist is saying “Yeah, this person knows her arse from her elbow – her arse is the one that’s sore.” Good on ya, NGV!
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Nice... but doesn't have the resonance of Delvoye's Cloaka
Too true. The good news is that, courtesy of their recent $15m donation, the NGV can now afford its own Cloaca, the outflow of which can be directed near one of their floor vents – thereby combining the two concepts...