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Article: Institutional critique: Virginia Rutledge on Christoph Buchel and Mass MOCA.(SLANT)
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- Artforum International
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- March 1, 2008
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AT FIRST, IT LOOKED LIKE a terrific match. Swiss installation artist Christoph Buchel and Joseph Thompson, director of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, had planned great things for Mass MOCA'S vast Building 5, one of the world's largest exhibition spaces for contemporary art. Biichel had conceived an artwork whose physical scale was in keeping with its imposing subject--loosely speaking, ideological warfare. Thompson was to deliver the tons (approximately 150) of material necessary to realize Buchel's vision, which included an entire disused cinema, a dive bar, a two-story Cape Cod home, and a reconstruction of one of the mock villages used by the US military ...
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