Artist Uses Events as Medium for Installation

Whatever you might think of the name, it’s still worth investigating the installation called "Black Pussy," which makes its public debut today at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea. The outcome of a six-month series of events that the artist conducted in Los Angeles, dubbed the "Black Pussy Soiree Cabaret Macrame," the huge piece encompasses a variety of objects with East versus West notions: objects like Egyptian hookah pipes, dream catchers, cowboy hats, Chinese scholar stones, Venetian glass vegetables, cloth rugs, and also an aluminum replica of Jeff Koons's “Rabbit” sculpture. Some 185 neon signs of various synonyms for female genitalia are featured throughout the work. And documentation of the real events appear in the form of photographs, as well as in audible form with remnants of the events' sounds.