{"id":546,"date":"2009-05-11T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/bring_back_the_1960s_-_tavares_1\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:54:49","slug":"bring_back_the_1960s_-_tavares_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/bring_back_the_1960s_-_tavares_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring back the 1960s – Tavares Strachan does the Boyles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1964, Scottish artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills
\nbegan a project they called Journey to the Surface of the Earth<\/i>. Within that category, many series followed, such as London Series<\/i>, Tidal Series<\/i>, Thaw Series<\/i>, Japan Series<\/i> and overall, the World Series<\/i>. From their Web site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Each
\nof these series has involved various random selection techniques to
\nisolate a rectangle of the Earth’s surface. In the case of the World
\nSeries, 1000 random selections were made from a giant map of the world
\nby blindfolded visitors to the exhibition at London’s ICA in 1969.
\nThe random selection serves several purposes: nothing is excluded as a
\npotential subject; the particular is chosen as a representative of the
\nwhole & it reduces their subjective role as artists & creators
\nto that of “presenters”. To present a slice of reality as objectively
\n& truthfully as possible. They call this “motiveless appraisal”.
\nOnce the random selection has been made, they recreate the site in a
\nfixed and permanent form as a painted fibreglass relief. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mark Boyle died in 2005, but Hills and their two children, Sebastian and Georgia, continue as Boyle Family.<\/p>\n

\"BoyleFamily.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>
I can’t find a review of Tavares Strachan<\/a>‘s Portal from Where We Are Is Always Miles Away <\/i>that mentioned the Boyles, even though Strachan is singing a nonrandom version of their song. From Roberta Smith’s review<\/a>,
\nyou’d think Strachan was the first to pick up a piece of the earth and
\nreplicate it, pound for pound, in Strachan’s case, the place where he
\ngot a parking ticket.<\/p>\n

\"TavaresStrachenparking.jpg\"<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here we go again, Karen Rosenberg on Strachan in the NYT<\/a>
\non Sunday, no tip of the hat to Boyle Family. Milan Kundera called
\nhistory a thin thread of remembering stretched over an ocean of
\nforgetting. It is the job of everyone who writes about art to
\nstrengthen that thread.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Nothing against Strachan. I think he’s terrific. <\/p>\n

<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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