This project was conducted on October 15th, 2010 at the Portland Art Museum for the second annual Shine a Light event. Here is a discription of that event:
“For the second year in a row, the one-night-only event Shine A Light illuminates the Portland Art Museum with a wide, bright beam of possibility: artists inviting visitors to do things in a museum they may never have done before, to look at a museum in a whole new way. Late this summer, these artists and members of the Museum’s education department were invited to consider with one another what Shine A Light means for the artists, and what it might mean for the visitors, and the Museum.”
MORE ABOUT “SHINE A LIGHT”
Oregon Public Broadcasting’s The Speakeasy:
Nudity and beer at the Portland Art Museum
By Aaron Scott on October 29, 2010
Photos by Wayne Bund
“[...] But the undisputed champion of the night, if you’re judging by audience size, was ‘Two Boys, Wrestling,’ a performance inspired by a statue in the permanent collection. Listen to the story to learn how Jason Zimmerman and his wrestlers grappled with the line separating an art museum and, well, a strip club.”
Photo by Wayne Bund
cell phone photo by Jillian Vento
And, a short project description:
One hundred plaster casts of classical Greek and Roman sculpture were some of the first acquisitions of the Portland Art Museum and formed the foundation of their original European collection. Paying homage to those modest roots, periodic “wrestling performances” will be staged in a traditional Greco-Roman style adjacent to the portion of the collection that has inspired this project.
cell phone photo by Maureen Burch
cell phone photo by Maureen Burch
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