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“ There is this great distortion ; it ’ s another
world when you get inside ,” Gregoire explains . “ It ’ s not just a tilted house , it ’ s tilted in different directions so there ’ s a destabilizing effect . It ’ s decorated and furnished like a lovely little cottage but it has this crazy spatial distortion and for some people it makes them downright nauseated . But when you sit down and anchor yourself and start communicating with someone else , it ’ s like the other person gives you balance because you both obey the laws of gravity . It ’ s wonderful the way it ’ s human like that .”
Do Ho Suh ’ s installation may have been the most logistically challenging , but Bruce Nauman ’ s Vices and Virtues was certainly the most controversial . Initially the idea was to have the
The Trees Are Alive( with the Sound of Sensors ) The latest addition to the Stuart Collection is also the first to come from a composer . John Luther Adams ’ Wind Garden , opening this summer , is the Collection ’ s first work devoted strictly to the ears , using living trees to play unique compositions to anyone who happens upon a wooded grove in the campus ’ theatre district .
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seven vices and virtues paired in blinking neon atop the Mandell Weiss Theatre , which sits on the edge of the campus .
“ But it was 1983 and our neighbors were concerned and distressed ,” Beebe recalled . “ The letters that the Chancellor received — I ’ ve got a huge file — were mostly negative . The city councilman from La Jolla at the time called a press conference and said , ‘ If the university is allowed to put the word LUST up there in neon , it will incite infidelity in the community .’ The newspaper called me for a comment and I said , ‘ There are fourteen words , why did he choose LUST ? He could have chosen prudence or faith . What does that say about him ?’”
Adams collaborated with experts at the La Jolla Playhouse and Scripps Institution of Oceanography to develop special motion sensors that live in the small branches of the grove . As the trees move , the motion is sensed and becomes a data stream that is changed into harmonic sounds which play from speakers hidden in the branches , so the trees themselves become instruments .
“ It ’ s definitely challenging ,” says Stuart Collection project manager Mathieu Gregoire . “ To make all the systems work , and also making it invisible .”
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