The Chestertown Spy and Cross Street Realtors will be sponsoring the video art classic The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss on this coming First Friday. It will be projected out of Cross Street window of the agency office at Cross and Cannon Street.
The Way Things Go is a 1987 art film that documents a long causal chain assembled of everyday objects, resembling a Rube Goldberg machine. The machine is in a warehouse, about 100 feet long, and incorporates materials such as tires, trash bags, ladders, soap, oil drums, and gasoline. Fire and pyrotechnics are used as chemical triggers.
The film has been formally showed at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh; the Sir Isaac’s Loft section of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen; Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; and it was shown on rotation with other short art films at British Columbia’s Robson Square Celebration Site outside the Vancouver Museum of Art during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympics.
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