Nature of Slims II
March 8th, 2010“For the last two or three hundred years in human society, we have been very focused on the earth. We have been transforming the materials of the earth, and the museum has developed also over the last two or three hundred years as a temple of objects made from the earth. I’m the guy who comes in and says: ” I’m bored with that. I don’t think it’s that interesting, and it’s not sustainable. Inside this temple of objects I refocus attention to human relations.”
-Tino Sehgal, Artist
(2010)
A Recipe from Our Patron Saint
We’re gonna cook up a fine dish,
Real groovy,
Wrap up some fine grape leaves and
Chip up a little lamb-aroonie
Sprinkle on a little fine rice-a-rooty,
A little pepp-oreeny and
A little pepp-o-vouty and
Sprinkle on a little salt-arooty
That put that seasonin’-oreenie there, uh?
Makes it real mellow.
And then you take and you nail up an avocado seed
Up in the ceiling and
Let it vout
For awhile.
-Slim Gaillard, from Gaillard Special
