Art Installation

[Harry Basset]

I frequently visit the Middlesbrough Institute for Modern Art. I find most of the exhibitions ludicrous with pretentious captions written by staff who believe in the Emperors New Clothes. The building is warm and dry and has clean toilets (Toilets are important at my age) When I called in MIMA this afternoon I was surprised to see two jet engines placed on a grassed area. On closer inspection these are captioned as a couple of TF-33 units from an EC-135C. The engines look as though they were just unbolted from the wings as they still have remnants of the sealing tape or sprayed coating attached. The turbo alternator intakes are still covered but the mid section cowlings are gone. They qualify as art as the artist has hidden some packets of tranquilising medication in each engine. Doesn't seem like art to me and I wouldn't be surprised if some local turns up one night with a Hiab truck and has them away to a scrapyard.

[DaveB]

I guess they're more aesthetically pleasing than a pile of bricks but art.. simply because the 'artist' hid some medication in them is, well, ludicrous. Let's hope the scrappy helps them out!

ATB
DaveB

[Paul K]

Harry I hear you. The toilets at the National Gallery, facing on to Trafalgar Square, are very good too. Great cafe in the same part of the building.

[Garry Russell]

I take it they were from an EC-135

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Ai ... a02309b0d8

Not an EC-135

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Eurocopt ... ab81fa37a5

[Harry Basset]

They are from a real Boeing EC-135, I doubt that pretender could even lift a TF-33.

[Tonks]

It would appear that MIMA is not the first place these things have been dumped... there are pics of them all over the place. I found this description of the "piece":

The artwork (by Roger Hiorns), commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, consists of two engines from a Boeing EC-135c surveillance aircraft that supposedly served in Afghanistan. Inside the engines are concealed three types of anti-psychotic drugs, which reportedly make reference to the creation and alleviation of anxiety on a global and individual level. “The stashes", the accompanying info insists, are “inaccessible to the viewer”, forming the hallucinogenic core of an installation gifted to the Arts Council Collection by the artist, London gallery Corvi Mora and the Henry Moore Foundation.”

What a load of tosh!!!!!!!

Tonks

[emfrat]

GRRAarrgh! - and these clowns get huge 'cultural' grants from the Gummint, while things of some use to society, like aircraft, train, and canal museums have to go cap-in-hand, begging for support!

MikeW

[dodger]

Sounds to me these people need to be certified,

What a load of B#x#x#xs.

Cheers,

Roger.