So, I'm going to Massachusetts for a few days this weekend. Instead of driving all the way up I am taking the ferry to New London, and getting a ride from there from a friend who is going there from NJ. Every time I go to Mass. via New London without driving myself from New London, I wind up being stuck there for hours waiting for a ride, or a bus, or a ferry or something. I think I hate new London. I wind up amusing myself by not buying anything in the comic book store, and then sitting around drinking coffee, or starting at the walls in the Greyhound station.
Did you know that bus stations in small cities are the most depressing places in the country? Even more depressing than some imaginary factory where machines kill babies all day? Because they are. It's a fact.
Did you know that bus stations in small cities are the most depressing places in the country? Even more depressing than some imaginary factory where machines kill babies all day? Because they are. It's a fact.
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Premiering at MKG is Collins two-screen video installation They Shoot Horses, 2004. For this work, Collins went to Ramallah, Palestine, where he auditioned a number of young people to participate in an eight hour disco-dance marathon.
The film is energetic, amusing, beguiling and moving, the dancing interrupted only by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque, power cuts, and technical problems. Collins says that the work is about survival and collapse, heroism and exploitation and the cabin fever mentality generated by eight hours of repetitive action.
Collins had travelled to places where "the fabric of the community is tested to the full": Palestine, Kosovo, Colombia, Iraq, Serbia, and Northern Ireland.
Using his camera as a "ticket" to gain access to the most profound human situations and experiences - birth, death, war, love and loss - his images deal with global issues.
And I guess it worked, because we stayed for hours watching.