As I made my way alone back down Frank Lloyd Wright’s loopy, utopian ramp I passed other visitors and their guides (or interpreters, to use Mr. Sehgal’s preferred term) in conversation. I later learned that a few verbal elements — Bob’s closing line and Giuliana’s opening questions — were scripted.
Everything else was extemporaneous. The interpreters had rehearsed timing with Mr. Sehgal, but otherwise, like the visitors, operated without instructions. No two conversations would ever be the same.
— Holland Cotter in his Art Review of Tino Sehgal‘s “This Progress” installation in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “In the Naked Museum: Talking, Thinking, Encountering” in the Art & Design section of The New York Times, (New York: H. J. Raymond & Company, January 31, 2010), p. 2. Thanks to Amina Wolfe for the lead.
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