| 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."
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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.

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