Paul McCarthy's 25 Projected Slides from photographs taken of a single intersection in LA taken on May 1, 1971.
Gary Beydler created Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974) by photographing the road from a moving car as it drove towards and through a tunnel. He animates the trip for the viewer by holding up 1400 prints in succession in front of his white T-shirt. Not to worry, with time-elapse photography it's just about a 6 minute drive.
Even Bonnie Sherk's performance pieces, Sitting Still and Pacing (1970) have the artist sitting or pacing beside a busy street, exit ram, or bridge. Guess which one this one is from:
One that can't be reproduced here is a happening creating by Joe Hawley, Mel Henderson, and Alfred Young who arranged for many friends to hail yellow cabs and have them all converge on the same intersection in the Castro in San Francisco. The artists filmed the resulting traffic jam from street level and from a helicopter. You can see a video (of the video) here. Creedence Clearwater's "Suzie Q" provided the soundtrack.
There's a lot more to see in this fine show. And when you come out of the show, you're on the Grand Concourse!
That sounds like a great show! Hope it will be still on when we get back...
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