Monday, February 06, 2006
Where I Will Be Tomorrow Night
Rob the Field Recordist is helping to put this together. He has personally guaranteed its amazingness.
Unfortuately I fear photographs will not be allowed.
Shintaro Miyake: The Beaver Project is an all-encompassing, whimsical dissertation into the real and imagined world of the American Beaver (Castor candensis)
Rob the Field Recordist is helping to put this together. He has personally guaranteed its amazingness.
Donning a fuzzy homemade costume of a "cartoon" beaver, Miyake starred as "Beaver" in a video that blurs fiction and reality as he gathered wood to build his 45-foot multi-colored dam and shopped for chest waders and lumber for his lodge. Throughout the process Beaver was aided by friendly "neighbors" who gave construction advice, helped gather and paint wood and placed the structures in the water ...
This epic exhibition will include a re-created pond with a beaver village, including the dam and lodge from the film, many landscape drawings, "faux" nature documentary film and an on-site performance wall drawing which will commence at the exhibition's opening. Miyake, as Beaver, will then draw continuously for three days to complete this 30-foot narrative. There will also be a Beaver Souvenir Stand and a Natural History Museum of Beavers (in collaboration with Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology).
Unfortuately I fear photographs will not be allowed.
