The installation takes Sekula’s complex negotiation of politics, portraiture, and most importantly, protest, as its starting point. ![]() ![]() According to the artist, the resulting work represents “a simple descriptive physiognomy” that illustrates how “the alliance on the streets was indeed stranger, more varied and inspired than could be conveyed by cute alliterative play with ‘teamsters’ and ‘turtles,’” a reference to the highly visible coordination between organized labor and environmentalists at the event. Viewers of the slide show confront a procession of the various people Sekula met in the crowd that day. The piece consists of eighty-one 35mm color slides that document Sekula’s participatory observation of the protest, sequenced and projected at nearly life-size scale on a continuous loop. Lynne and Harold Honickman Galleries (156,157)Īllan Sekula’s Waiting for Tear Gas is a monument of politically engaged art created in the wake of the anti-globalization protests that rocked Seattle, Washington, in late 1999.
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