Does the context or quality of the material matter?
The contest, the Materials Matter Amazing Art Challenge, is a project of the Ripley's Believe or Not Odditorium in Times Square, an 18,000-square-foot attraction filled with exhibits that define the venerable brand.
In recent years, she has directed the project "Material Matters," which included the research, material investigation, and conservation of Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell's Concrete Traffic (1970), in collaboration with the conservator Christian Scheidemann.
In recent years, she has directed the project "Material Matters". This involves a collaboration with the New York-based Salvage Art Institute centered on the gradual reconfiguration of two outdoor sculptures stored on a vacant lot to test the capacity of public art to reanimate challenging urban spaces.
They believe that having a clear mind focused on spiritual rather than material matters at the time of death is the best state with which to pass into the next life.
In addition, "Material Matters" included the research, material investigation, and conservation of Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell's Concrete Traffic (1970), in collaboration with the conservator Christian Scheidemann.
The reward -- or punishment -- for behavioral matters should be behavioral; the reward -- or punishment -- for material matters should be material.
The challenge going forward will focus less on finding material, than in identifying the material that matters".
At the end of the day, it's the material that matters most to Kuhn, as opposed to the size of the production itself.
It isn't the material that matters as much as the means of delivery, and our ability to find what we want when we want it.
