Comments on: Rotating Kitchen

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By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:00:04 +0000

Ooook.

How is this ‘art?’
Granted…I’m not some wamby-pamby that’s gonna complain someone else could be eating that food, because let’s be serious…who hasn’t thrown out food? Grow up.

This isn’t art because it’s quite simply a bunch of nothing. I really don’t understand the concept.

Are we re-discovering the concept of gravity? Is that what it is?

I don’t know what’s more pretentious: calling this ‘art,’ or whining about starving kids in africa.

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By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:35:56 +0000

I love how everybody is taking pictures. WHOOP DE DOO, it’s just falling food. So lame. However I like this. Instead of going into some lengthy “what it really means” drill like others before me (I would only take the artists word from his mouth), I think this is mostly about the process… the act of falling and seeing it. What falls first, how things fall, where they land, what it all looks like jumbled together. Just the motions and to watch it happen. A piece here and there, kinda like ambient music. Also, destruction and chaos in any form can be beautiful, another reason why I like this, it’s just visually interesting. Also the fact that stuff falls out of the exhibit. I didn’t think of wasted food or anything either (and even still, if they paid for the food, they should be able to use it in any way they want). That is why I think taking a picture is lame. This is a piece to watch, stills don’t to do it justice.

Also, was having the lights go something on purpose? I would have had them in protective plastic or something so that it was lit up the whole. Really felt dead after it was nearly all around and the lights went out.

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By: Storfy

Storfy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:40:25 +0000

As far as art goes, I think paintings are less expensive and more expressive. All of the things in this piece are thrown together onto some mechanism or another. I have to wonder how much interaction the artist had with this piece other than funding and bad sketches.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:19:54 +0000

@ Ian

Actually, I’ve participated in Free The Children’s annual 24 hour famine at my high school for the past 3 years, and each time we raised over $2000 towards building schools and supporting villages in the developing world.

So instead of sitting on your ass and bitching at what you think other people aren’t doing, go out and do something to improve the world.

This kitchen, while initially interesting in concept, is definitely a waste of resources. not just the food, but all of the materials used to construct the mechanism and kitchen, and the energy used to rotate the whole assembly.

I want to know when people will stop trying to create art for the sake of art (don’t get me wrong, I like some of it). If you truly have something to express, you will express it. Otherwise, spend your time in a more productive, less wasteful manner, please. (that last sentence applies to anyone reading this too).

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:43:38 +0000

For all the people saying that this is a huge waste of food and there are starving people around the world. SHUT THE FUCK UP! Your pretentious attitude is wasted on the internet. This food would not have been put to better use, it would have gone down the throats of rich people.

When was the last time you went hungry for a day and sent $10 to starving people? Fucking never, idiots

By: Mike Baehr

Mike Baehr — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:24:19 +0000

Is there any way to keep on top of the kitchen’s progress? I’d really like to see how it looks now, as compared to how it looked when it first started rotating. I imagine it smells quite dreadful, too.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:13:06 +0000

so this is kinda cool, but i don’t really understand how it is “art”.
just seems like a big waste of time and some good money.

By: Stacy Alexander

Stacy Alexander — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:25:50 +0000

This particular artist has occupied himself with a topic that is more common to Dutch art than to his native Norwegian, ….namely living art. The life he works with defines space and the life span . He therefore, transforms himself into a slow working sculptor of time. There is also an element of surprise in his work that is embedded in the fusion of form and space. There is also quite a lot of humor and irreverence in his handling of the artworks. He did an entire series of food sculptures including one in which a chair is cooked. :-)

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:26:19 +0000

This is art? What’s funny about this is that people are easily entertained. To prove the point, go to a public place and start looking at the sky for a few minutes and notice people around you. After a while, they’ll be looking at the sky, but will not know why; just as what we see in this video.

By: Dane

Dane — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:34:07 +0000

Art is subjective, I like it, you don’t, who cares, that is the beauty of art, get over yourselves.

By: marika

marika — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:11:07 +0000

For me, this piece evokes sympathetic feelings for those who live in earthquake prone zones. It is one thing to imagine your world being turned upside down, another to see it.

By: Sick-Ish

Sick-Ish — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:23:40 +0000

i say rotateing bedroom with a person in side and straps on the bed so he can actually sleep now that art