Ann Hamilton's installation, the event of a thread, opens at the Park Avenue Armory through January 6th. Roberta Smith has a review here, replete with photostream and video, detailing the engineering of an immense, billowing white curtain strung throughout the rafters of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall's vast and seemingly cetological interior. The cords and curtains toss and dance, put into motion by the audience, as individuals are pushed by one another on huge swing planks suspended on long cords from the towering ceiling. Other visitors choose to perhaps lay beneath the waves of curtain or walk around holding radios wrapped in brown paper to their ears, listening to literature transmissions "murmured" by actors seated somberly at a refectory table and while a writer scribbles on a miked surface, seated off by herself in a corner. Pigeons are supposed to be released at the end of each day, to fly around the space and then be homed back into their cages.
The work is described as reminiscent of Christo and Jean-Claude's 1972 outdoor land-art piece Valley Curtain. Ms. Hamilton is also a weaver and has an extensive background in textiles.
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