Window Blow-Out (1976) shows a derelict housing project in the Bronx with its windows bursted out. But what appears to be a random act of urban vandalism was actually a performance piece by Matta-Clark himself. In the performance, the artist shot at the windows of the empty building with a BB gun. The piece suggests that urban decay and neglect are manmade situations that can be avoided.
you should research your text - I don't think Matta-Clark shot out the windows in the photographs.
ReplyDeleteActually he shot, but not to an empty house, but the one where the architecture exhibition of his fellows & teachers was held. It was done at 3 am, before the opening, but windows was changed and no one saw the final part of this action.
ReplyDelete... actually he shot the windows out of the Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, in whose windows he had planned to hang the pictures of the broken windows in empty buildings in the bronx. Peter Eisenman compaired the incident to kristallnacht.... and students in reactionary architecture schools have been makeing inverted citations of GMC's work ever since, hoping to recouperate this symbolic castration of their father.
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