Two women move in intricate and spiraling patterns in a small space at the front of the curtain in "Duo" and four men move through close physical counterpoint in "(N.N.N.N)." Quick shifting tables form the set and dance floor in "One Flat Thing, reproduced".
Fabricated of dark, gleaming mahogany sodded with lush green felt, in 1990, Ms. Levine's tables form a wry comment on Minimalism, especially on Donald Judd's big repeating boxes and planes of saturated color, and on the movement as a kind of men's club.
That includes legendary artifacts like carved Tikis from the Kon Tiki Room, old tables form Don the Beachcomber, and more.
From an out-of-work and homeless 60-year-old man to an incognito regular who tours internationally as a professional table tennis player, the people who frequent the tables form a distinct kind of community.
The room, which could be a community college classroom, has been configured so that several round tables form a half-oval with a podium as the far focal point a re-arrangement meant to foster conversations.
These tables form the basis of a database with one record for each sequence which stores basic information about each sequence, including its grouping.
