I went to MIT last month to catch up with some friends and former classmates, one of whom had an exhibit opening there.
From the official exhibition press:
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, the next phase of a new project by Bahamian-born, New York-based artist Tavares Strachan. Since 2006, Strachan has been working on this multiphase body of work that explores space and deep-sea training. The Orthostatic Tolerance comes after two years of intensive research and hands-on training that has taken the artist to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The solo exhibition at the List Center features a number of new works that were developed during Stachan’s recent residency at MIT.
The space bastard aimed for NYC Restaurant Week when I was lost in the euphoria of some mean ravioli to finagle that promise to give him this chair! So once more, any tips on its whereabouts would be gratefully received.
T’s show comes down this July 11. Not to reduce its myriad wonders to mere technical wizardry, but there is a working rocket made from Bahamian sand and powered solely by sugar cane.
There is also a monumental skeleton made invisible via time-honored Venetian artistry.
Honestly, go see this if you can.