Disembowelment

An Installation in a University Common Room  December 1974

 

Excalibur Review:

Calumet common room disembowelled

Tubing tires, extension cords and rubber molding coiled around uprooted tree stumps. A student wrapped totally in plastic and tape squirmed in the centre of the room.
And visitors to Calumet's common room inspected the holocaust which had hit the room under the guise of an "environment and interaction".
"It looks more like an accident than art," mused one student.
"I think it makes its own quiet statement," remarked another.
The damage, affectionately referred to as The Disembowelment of the Common Room, was wreaked by four visual arts students on a $150 commission from Calumet's general meeting.
"It took three weeks to plan," said Joy Wall, one of the creators, "and five hours to put up. A lot of it was found in garbage heaps behind factories."
'It's very interesting," commented student Paul Taylor halfway through last week, "but it makes me want to clean up."


 

  Photo by Greg Martin

[Photo Caption]
The gutting of the Calumet common room as performed by the inmates of Calumet college

under the direction of the general meeting.

 


Last Updated: June 30, 2007