And when we got back he got a TV box, made a circle, put a chair in the middle and taped an umbrella to it over the top and put his own drawings on the wall and he sat in the middle and said: 'My studio's better than yours.'" Hirst grins.
From a solar powered tape deck to an umbrella-shaded stereo setup on a hand truck, Sachs' impressive assemblage is on display at The Contemporary Austin's Jones Center, The exhibition includes early boomboxes, made from repurposed materials, which had their debut at Mary Boone Gallery in New York in 1999, as well as newer pieces forged from bronze and ceramic.
Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa and other prominent designers created many of its roughly 7,000 products, but their names are obscured in keeping with an anti-brand credo: The company wants customers to buy a stapler, umbrella or measuring tape not for its name, but for its function and design.
It was like patching a leaky roof by nailing on a wooden panel, tying down a tarp, taping over a crack, sticking an umbrella in a hole.
A sponge on a stick (for washing difficult to reach places,) an extra wide umbrella, and an extra long tape measure from Amplestuff.com.
And in the third and most evocative piece, a pair of umbrellas duct-taped together at the handles are released in a windstorm.
To retrieve the document, teams fashioned widgets out of PVC tubing, umbrellas, fishing rods, wooden dowels, duct tape, or whatever else they might have, making sure that the device never touched the ground.
As he was telling me this, Hollinger fiddled with his bike helmet, which still had the paper-pattern shapes taped to it from its use as an umbrella template.
"I started video taping her, I,also, was hit by an umbrella before taking a shower of coffee right on my face".
The accompaniment mixed traditional percussive thwacks with sound effects of all kinds — pouring, swirling and blowing bubbles in water; tramping on gravel; crinkling magnetic recording tape; scratching a 78-r.p.m. record; dueling with umbrellas — performed by the percussionists William Winant and Alex Lipowski.
