Bring back the 1960s - Tavares Strachan does the Boyles
Each of these series has involved various random selection techniques to isolate a rectangle of the Earth's surface. In the case of the World Series, 1000 random selections were made from a giant map of the world by blindfolded visitors to the exhibition at London's ICA in 1969. The random selection serves several purposes: nothing is excluded as a potential subject; the particular is chosen as a representative of the whole & it reduces their subjective role as artists & creators to that of "presenters". To present a slice of reality as objectively & truthfully as possible. They call this "motiveless appraisal". Once the random selection has been made, they recreate the site in a fixed and permanent form as a painted fibreglass relief.Mark Boyle died in 2005, but Hills and their two children, Sebastian and Georgia, continue as Boyle Family.
I can't find a review of Tavares Strachan's Portal from Where We Are Is Always Miles Away that mentioned the Boyles, even though Strachan is singing a nonrandom version of their song. From Roberta Smith's review, you'd think Strachan was the first to pick up a piece of the earth and replicate it, pound for pound, in Strachan's case, the place where he got a parking ticket.
And here we go again, Karen Rosenberg on Strachan in the NYT on Sunday, no tip of the hat to Boyle Family. Milan Kundera called history a thin thread of remembering stretched over an ocean of forgetting. It is the job of everyone who writes about art to strengthen that thread.
Nothing against Strachan. I think he's terrific.
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