February 12, 2006
Don't Be Pinkin' With Us; Or, Them's Fightin' Duds
by The Tears Of Things
The pestilential phenomenon of newspink continues to proliferate, as you can see from the array above --our last, we swear it!
For those just gettting on board, we started with Enough With The Pink Already. Seventy-seven images of pink women newscasters.
Then came It's Not A Rose-Colored World / And Wearing Pink Won't Make It So, which extended the array to 77 men. It's also the overall title. Here Catherine King explains the background to the piece.
Then came What Part Of 'Enough' Don't You Understand? in which the piece became a triptych. And this update by Catherine King in late November.
Then I described a Life-Sized Version of this triptych, which you can read about here and crudely visualize here.
Here we'd like to extend the concept of the installation. Originally we envisioned a 12 by 30-foot wall covered with the grid of glowing panels. Now imagine an L-shaped installation, with the original triptych on the long wall, and a constantly looping, 12-by-15 foot projected slide show of the 308 images on the short wall abutting the piece. Including these images:
Repeat After Me: Must Wear Pink.
It's A Pink Pink Pink Pink World.
PETA Please Protect The Pink Python From Uma Pemmaraju.
Can't you just see it at, say, SMoCA? Copyright by King & du Bois.
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