This is a work by Nina Katchadourian. Her work was part of the Time Based Art Festival I attended this weekend in Portland. I love this piece, in which she actually finds spider webs and tries to "mend" them with string. The spiders are generally nonplussed by this, and immediately attempt to rid their webs of her interventions. To me it's about the tension we've been describing between nature and culture, a fraught relationship indeed!
You may see more of her work at her website here:
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/
this is pretty interesting stuff. on a material level alone, i'm pretty baffled by the process of attaching string to a spider web. there's a certain delicacy there, in interacting with the natural construction that feels like a deep breath. it's interesting juxtaposing that with pretty intense, fairly artificial color.
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