Be Careful
Sunday, February 17, 2008
This from ArtInfo:
Maurice Agis, the artist who created an inflatable sculpture that killed two people after an exhibition went awry in 2006, was charged with manslaughter yesterday, the Times (London) reports. Agis's Dreamspace, a giant walk-in artwork that visitors likened to a "psychedelic cathedral" had toured Europe for a decade before the artwork broke free of its moorings, reared 70 feet in the air, and flipped over at Riverside Park in Durham. Two women were killed, and 13 people were injured, including a 3-year-old girl who fell 50 feet. Agis was charged with with gross negligence manslaughter after a 19-month investigation by the Health and Safety Executive and Durham police. Brouhaha International Limited, a Liverpool-based promotions company, was charged with breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, as was Chester-le Street District Council. Tony Galloway, the council's director of development services, was charged with a separate breach of the act. Dreamspace had received £60,000 from the Arts Council for a U.K. tour, and was slated to make its next stop at Victoria Park in East London.
The moral of the story, kids? Big art is dangerous.
Thanks for the heads up Bianca
posted by Robert Sloon at 1:16 PM
4 Comments:
I've been inside that zeppeling thing.
dear god, thats fucking crazy. art killing people? It reared 70 feet in the air????
It's a lot of interconnected zeppelins, making this maze. The zeppelins are pumped full of air to keep the structure standing up, and you walk inside from one zeppelin to another. All of them are different colours, very pure colours, so the colour you get inside, with the sun glowing through, is very intense and trippy. You can actually feel emotion, like in the red one you can feel this intense energy and in the white one you feel all spaced and above everything. And I'm talking from the point of view of someone who doesn't get emotional about art with the greatest of ease. It's a kind of strangely cheesy '60's experience, but very interesting
you mean it was.
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