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I've been meaning to write up a blog about the field trip, but I somehow didn't get to it until today. Oh well.

I thought the field trip was a success! Although pretty much everyone got soaked, we saw and did a lot. Now our libraries are that much fuller. I was a little disappointed that most of the floors of the Whitney were closed, but then again, that could have been a plus for us, since we were tired (physically and mentally). My mom sometimes says that you have to see what you want to see before your eyes get tired of looking at art, so I think by the time we got to the Whitney, a lot of us were almost 'art''ed out.

At the sculpture garden: I've never been there, and it was nice to see a 10-foot statue right at the beginning (well, the tree came first, but in the actual museum). I thought the garden would be outside, since the word garden brings images of the outdoors, but the inside was interesting. I liked exploring the tunnels and finding artwork in them. One of my favorite parts was this long dark hallway. I'm not even sure if it was part of the exhibit, but you could go on both ends of the hallway, and it was a different experience on each side. One side was lighter, facing a pitch-black hallway, but you couldn't go down it since it was roped off. The other end was on the pitch-black side. You could see the light, and if people were there, people. I didn't go down the dark hallway, though, because I wasn't sure if you were allowed to. Megan took a picture of the hallway, and it looked creepy when it showed up on flash, too.

At PS1: I think my favorite parts about PS1 were the sound room, the "dungeon" on floor zero, and the wall of pictures in the 9.11 exhibit.
-It was cool hearing the individual voices along with the whole chorus. Everyone sounded a little different, even if they were singing the same part. Some were louder than others, some had a more gravely voice, some had more vibrato...
-When I went down to the "dungeon", I thought that it would be a cool place to film something. I didn't understand what it had to do with the 9/11 exhibit, though. Then again, I didn't read/find the explanation that had to do with it.
-The wall of pictures in the 9.11 exhibit were sad. I found myself focusing on this one of a sleeping child and a woman in the service. I thought it was sad, but when I read the description about it in the booklet, it was even sadder (I thought the woman and child were mother and child, but it turned out that the kid lost their parents and were at the memorial service for them).

At the Whitney: I've passed by the building before, and I've never realized that that was the Whitney! I thought it was somewhere by Chelsea, and was a white building...
As I said before, most of the floors were closed off. It was also a little hard getting around the museum, since the elevators were slow and there were a lot of stairs (ew, exercise... haha). But I liked when you looked out of the windows at the Whitney, the view of the city looked a little like it was a painting! It was also good that we got to see the building before it got moved. A bit of history.
-I saw three floors. The first floor exhibit was ok. I think it would have been a different experience if we came in at a time where the actor was interacting with the exhibit.
-Floor 3 was interesting, since it was an artist at the Bauhaus. However, I wasn't that impressed with the majority of his work. I didn't care for the out of proportion figures. I liked his work like Bridge V and Broken Glass. They were more abstract and had lots of shapes.
-Floor 5 I liked a lot. The first installation you walked into cut the room in an interesting way. I didn't realize that the giant L's were all the same shape until I read the text on it! I liked that it gave a different perspective on the shape, and made it seem interesting. I think I like big, abstract, instillations (like at the Dia Beacon).

At dinner: Before dinner, we ran into another group. Twice. I find it funny how there's a huge city, and somehow people can run into each other. It's nice, actually. We split up and went into Trash and Vaudeville for a bit, then walked up and down St. Marks. Dinner was good. I was in the mood for something a little healthier like soup, but we ended up eating hamburgers and all. Oh well~ I got to try pizza fries. That was different.

The play: I LOVED THE PLAY. It was funny how the actors had straight faces on, but they were doing very dramatic stuff. And the fact that they took things literally, made it all the better. I was looking up the name of one of the plays they put on, and I found the original play. I skimmed through it (I don't have enough time to read it all, since I still have to write up my Dada reflection) but the gist of it had a different meaning with the dialogue than when it was preformed on the stage that night.
-I found those shark hats hilarious.
-When the narrator was yelling at the people at one point in the play, was that intentional? Or could they really not hear her?
I wonder what happened during the 3 minutes of silence during other showings. I guess the actors get a kick out of seeing how the audience reacts during that part.

I hope to have another field trip soon!
(Maybe to raise funds for STAC we could hop on a train and preform or do something in the streets :) ? But I think you need a permit for that...that would be interesting, though.)
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(Note to self: You have to write about Dada day, also)