23.05.12

Institutional belly button-gazing springs directly from artists such as Hans Haacke and Daniel Buren, who critiqued the hierarchies of the art age power. Andrea Fraser falls into this category. In her 1991 video “Offer hospitality to to the Wadsworth: A Museum Tour’’ she takes on the role of a docent. For her MATRIX stick out, she gave actual museum tours. In this video, she wanders the grounds, spouting the record of the Wadsworth.

At first it sounds like run-of-the-mill puffery. Fraser sets the museum in environment. She throws in the development of Hartford, and highlights the social and familial networks that patronized the museum: “Gentlemen,’’ she says, “who keenly enjoyed doing the fitting thing.’’

Mostly she quotes sources found during extensive research, and she gradually weaves these from back-patting information into biting social commentary. Hartford changed, she says. It became “full of pig sties and scraps dumps,’’ with “a derelict population living in squalor.’’ She’s still speaking in the voice of the cohort that supported the Wadsworth. It’s a sly, icy shift that underscores the good deeds of the gentlemen and still women of Hartford with their fear and distrust.

Source: The Boston Globe

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by Al

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Here are some photos of our old love-seat. Ah…the memories…

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