***C L I C K H E R E*** for V I D E O of No, Said the Fruit Bowl / Governors Island, 2014
Accompanied by Bill Santen Performing the 1981 Juice Newton classic “Angel of the Morning”
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (detail – stove) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
This is a site-specific installation in the kitchen of an abandoned 19th-century military residence on Governors Island in the New York City harbor. The title is borrowed from Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, in which Carson assigns her child-protagonist’s dialogue to the fruit bowl he has on his head. In the story, the kitchen becomes a site for interactions that are at once heavily charged and completely ordinary. I have chosen this fragment––a refusal from a piece of kitchenware––to suggest a kitchen acting out by refusing to perform its conventional functions.
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (refrigerator) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (detail – refrigerator) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (stove, counter, refrigerator) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (detail – stove) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (toaster oven, phone, coffee maker) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (sink, dish rack) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (sink, dish rack) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (detail – hole in the wall) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (kitchen table) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (detail – CD player) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (cabinet) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
No, said the Fruit Bowl, 2014 / Installation (detail – stove) / Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC