Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
In Boston, the Big Dig taught us patience, and to always expect construction delays. There was a great billboard, Lord, i think it was back in the late 80’s or 90’s that said "Rome was not built in a day. If it were, we would have hired their contractor." Perhaps Rome’s contractor would have rethought the whole epoxy thing, but I digress.
Anyway, we all shrugged it off like water off a duck’s back when we realized that the new Boston Harbor Institute of Contemporary Art had to put off it’s September 17th opening. No big whoop, it looks like it’s going to be worth the wait. Check out the slideshow at their website. I’m especially drawn to the theater, and I want to know if I will feel like I am cantelievered over Boston Harbor when I am up on the top floor of the building.
It looks like Diller and Scofidio have taken their vast experience creating installations to the next level - it is as if the visitors become a part of a larger performance art, interacting with the surroundings from a wall right in front of them all the way out into the vast views of the Harbor and its Islands. I wish I knew the location better, to see how the complex is stitched into the rest of the context around it. I can’t wait to visit and see if it will be as interesting as it looks.
