Last year's CES saw the typical, demeaning booth babes and free swag, but also paintball shooting galleries while SXSW parties featured celebrity performances from Justin Timberlake and Prince.
Below, DuCett examines the roots of his Crystal Bridges contribution, the "Mom Booth" — a deceptively simple piece of performance art that turns the typical museum information booth on its head.
In a "Deadpool 2" teaser, which aired in theaters before "Logan" earlier this year, an old man is killed while the titular hero struggles to put his costume on in a phone booth (typical superhero problems).
Works at Scope tend to be flashy: Noh Sang-Kyoon's giant, sequined Buddha heads at Bryce Wolkowitz's booth are typical; so, too, Fawad Khan's life-size Postal Service truck at 33 Bond; and Johnston Foster's installation of a flock of seagulls, at the entrance to the Scope tents.
We also asked about the use of sun lamps or tanning booths, the typical number of months per year they had a tan, pigmentation characteristics including eye color and skin complexion, and some common measures of skin response to sunlight, including sun rashes and typical reaction to first hour of sun with no tan and no sunburn.
On the surface, the Outsider Art Fair looks like your typical art fair, stark white booths buzzing with people with cameras, art being sold, coffee being served, but when when you stop by the booths and talk with people, you quickly realises it's far from an Armory or a Frieze.
On the surface, the Outsider Art Fair looks like your typical art fair, stark white booths buzzing with people with cameras, art being sold, coffee being served, but when when you stop by the booths and talk with people, you quickly realizes it's far from an Armory or a Frieze.
At the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Feb. 22, it seemed to be a typical garment trade show, consisting of booths with racks of clothing and folding tables with candy dishes where company representatives sat down with buyers.
Far from the typical disc jockey toiling unnoticed in a booth, Tiësto occupied center stage with his turntables and mixers, at times under his own huge video image.
The stage area is set up in individual booths, designed to represent a typical "old person's" setting.
