I saw it and, imho, it was amazingly underwhelming. It seemed kind of sad to ask visitors to smell odours in jars or listen to sounds through headphones, when a simple act like walking out of the building and onto boulevard René Lévesque would be a more powerful sensory experience.
But Carleton architecture student cwang said: “The exhibit was interesting because it took these different phenomena and presented them in an un-conventional format, challenging our normal perception.”
In any case, I’m with Jean Burgess in finding it rather curious what the curator thought constituted going beyond “traditional interpretations” of the city.
But mostly I was disappointed because I totally loved the curator’s last exhibition on Price, Rossi, Stirling + Matta-Clark. In comparison, this was downright dull.
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March 24th, 2006 at 8:53 am
I saw it and, imho, it was amazingly underwhelming. It seemed kind of sad to ask visitors to smell odours in jars or listen to sounds through headphones, when a simple act like walking out of the building and onto boulevard René Lévesque would be a more powerful sensory experience.
But Carleton architecture student cwang said: “The exhibit was interesting because it took these different phenomena and presented them in an un-conventional format, challenging our normal perception.”
In any case, I’m with Jean Burgess in finding it rather curious what the curator thought constituted going beyond “traditional interpretations” of the city.
But mostly I was disappointed because I totally loved the curator’s last exhibition on Price, Rossi, Stirling + Matta-Clark. In comparison, this was downright dull.