Corin Hewitt’s performances have been called photography machines.
Weavings stems from a 2007 performance in Portland. Using four
cameras, fabrics, an image of a Native American basket, food,
and Plasticine, Hewitt has made pictures of the basket photo, the
patterned fabrics, a basket he made out of pasta, himself eating the
pasta, a weaving made of Plasticine, a weaving made of beans,
half-eaten food, the cameras themselves. No material is let go without
commemoration. It makes you feel better about being a living thing.
(Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, 654-3100. 10 am–5 pm, $15
suggested.)
Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male... More by Jen Graves
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