Fun in Dallas - Part 2 - DMA

Our day just keeps going and getting better.  Now, we are at the Dallas Museum of Art for a new exhibit to enjoy.  It is called speechless:  different by design.  per the DMA we can "explore the many ways in which we connect to the world around us through our senses in an exhibition of multi-sensory, interactive, and immersive experiences for visitors of all backgrounds and abilities."  Mister is given a bag full of extra items to help us out along the way.  The first exhibit is "sound of the earth chapter 2" by Yuri Suzuki.  We laid our ears up against the ball and depending on where you stood, different sounds were heard.  Each panel was unique and pleasant.



The second room is huge and colorful for sure.  by Misha Kahn, I cannot even type the name here -- well I CAN so here goes:  *(T3)*(8)*(J~)*([..")*(7^)*(4=)*(F])*(llii.)*(A)*(!s)*(11)*('.v:')*    There ya have it.  The rooms are full of large "bubbles" for lack of a better word and they inflate and deflate throughout the room, causing sounds to play a role as well.

Mister finds one that allows him to just sit and look around.  In his bag of tricks, he adds pink glasses to the experience.  Doesn't he look hot?  Hahahaha.

Before long, it starts to inflate once again and he holds on as long as he can before having to vacate his personal seat.  I love that he reminds me of Edith Ann and her rocking chair on the old Laugh In show.

This area is also in the room --- as it inflates, movement takes place.

My camera doesn't come out to play in all rooms - just having too much fun.  The next time I want to photograph something is in the exhibit by Ini Archibong and it is entitled Theoracle.  Sound waves are at play here, manifesting themselves as vibrations on the water.

Scroll Space by Steven and William Ladd is our final room.

Applying various items from the bag do give this space the illusion of a colorful time warp coming right at you.  Each spool was hand rolled by a student and all of their pictures are on the outside wall.  It's pretty cool and a sock only experience so the pads of your feed are involved in the sensory experience.

Upstairs has another exhibit that I want to check out.  I am waylaid by a giant blue man at the top of the stairs.

He's looking down on a teeny tiny man.  THAT gives one pause.

Sheila Hicks has a fiber exhibit I want to check out.  Here is her info:  Sheila Hicks both scrutinizes and playfully explores textiles and fiber arts techniques.  Her work focuses on color and, more importantly, on the structure of the fabric."  Enjoy along with me.

"Ancient artisans wove cloth with four selvages.  This technique represents a powerful cultural idea:  a textile woven to size and shape, complete in its finished form, is an act of intent.  It required extensive conceptualization and planning before the work commenced, and it epitomized the values of a culture whose textiles - both in process and design - were imbued with meaning."

I LOVE this piece that is part of the Dreamline series by Wanda Koop.

The main hall has a wonderful experience by Sandra Cinto.  Entitled "Landscape of a Lifetime" it is comprised of 24 rectangular segments in deepening shades of blue, 14 canvases, and an ambient soundtrack.  Now, the museum is way too noisy today to have the effect of the soundtrack, but the series is crazy cool.

At the end, in the last room, we come to some works by Ragnar Kjartansson, son of a director and an actor.  He was born in Iceland in 1976 and makes videos, performances, paintings, and drawings that incorporate theatrical devices in his exploration of personal emotion and collective meaning.  The back gallery houses "The Visitors", a video installation featuring Kjartansson and seven of his friends.  The eight individuals perform a musical composition consisting of a single lyric taken from the poem "Feminine Ways," written by Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir.  Each musician appears isolated in separate settings at the idyllic Rokeby Farm in upstate New York, yet they performed the piece simultaneously.  It is by far one of the most phenomenal experiences I have had at a museum.  Incredible and fabulous.  A definite must see if it is in your area but all yourself an hour to see the entire video.  It grabs you in and holds you oh so quietly as you walk around from panel to panel and back again.

I do believe this is the first time we have closed the museum and had to leave.  They were herding us out the minute the video ended ---- but I loved this trip here today.

The sun is setting and the buildings look divine as we make our way back home from a great staycation day.  We still have one more day together before my sweetheart has to return to work.  I wonder what he has planned.  Time will tell.