Mr. Dudley is planning to spend his first full week as chief executive on the road, visiting installations in India and Azerbaijan.
For a few months, I went to military bases across the United States, visiting installations in California, New Jersey, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan, to name a few.
For more information on the project, visit the installation's "making of" page, including behind-the-scenes photos from the installation design team amigo and amigo.
Before the show, you can visit an installation in the basement, where suspended blocks of ice are melting above microphone-equipped metal bowls.
The Exploratorium, the science museum that commissioned the work in the early 1980s from the artists Peter Richards and George Gonzales, loosely estimates that about 300 people visit the installation each week.
As part of the educational component, visitors can play the instruments and the 700 schoolchildren scheduled to visit the installation will learn about the natural setting, too.
(I don't mention how I first came across her work: in Sex and the City, when Carrie and the Russian visit her installation, The House with the Ocean View, at 2am on their first date).
Visit the installation collection's website here.
To visit the installation for yourself, go to 7514 13th Ave.
For me this works particularly well for sound art, as the descriptions of these often instantaneously create a whole acoustic world in your head even if you never actually hear the recording, visit the installation or encounter the performer.
