Not all is fun and games. There is also a serious side to the japes and pranks by the artists, who seem more willing to inflict pain than to edify the museumgoer. Shane Cooper's Feed is a sculpture made of plants and television screens. Composed of two parts, the upper half is a wall of television screens, each tuned to a different channel, and the bottom is a "garden" of ferns that can survive under conditions of extreme lighting. Though the ferns are capable of surviving on this diet of radiation emitted by the cathode ray tubes, can the same be said for the millions of couch potatoes that the work metaphorically simulates?
Though some installations in the exhibit seem better suited to a museum of technology than a museum of contemporary art, the exhibition is well worth a visit because it offers insight into the collaborative nature of contemporary art and the interactive ethos between viewer and artist.
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