It's getting icy over at the Brooklyn Museum.
There's a big block of ice and cooling system on view outside of the Museum's south
entrance.
The Distance Between What We Have and What
We Want (Arctic Ice Project) by Tavares
Strachan goes on view today at the Brooklyn
Museum.
In 2005, Tavares Strachan journeyed
to the
Alaskan Arctic and worked with a skilled team
to extract a single two-and-a-half ton piece
of ice from a frozen river. This ice block
was shipped to the Bahamas (the artist's
birthplace) and exhibited there in hot summer
weather, kept cold in a specially designed
freezer powered by solar energy.
The very
same block of ice and cooling system are now
on view outside of the Museum's south
entrance.
Why did the artist send the ice to the Bahamas, how much money did he spend on it? What was he trying to prove?
Thank You
The Curious Class of 5-305
Brooklyn, NY