The Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers started rotating last Friday and will continue to rotate until February 28th 2010.
Rotating Kitchen Art
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Oh for Gods sake….what next…
*Considers how unusual this is compared to the rest of the blog*
Nope! Not in the slightest bit strange! … >.>
TY this blog for desensitizing me from my sense of normality!
Um… WTF?! What a complete waste of time! If this is what passes for art this century I’d rather be a philistine. There’s no skill or imagination involved here; I had exactly the same idea myself, when I was eight, and thought it’d be pretty cool. Luckily at the time I had neither the resources to implement it or the bloody-minded stupidity to waste time, food, power, and attention on yet another exceedingly ridiculous insult to the term ‘art’.
I love this. Absolutely love it. I could sit and watch it for hours.
Then an eccentric looking man said,
Speak to us of Art.
And he said:
It might as easily be said that man could live without Art as that man could live without water.
Look upon the innocent scribblings of little children.
Doubt not that each of us emerged from the womb an artist.
Art is freedom.
That which is called Art, yet is made subservient to commerce is not Art.
That which is called Art, yet is made subservient to a Nation or State is not Art.
That which is called Art, yet is hanging in the Museum of Modern Art is not Art. That crap my six year old son could do, the Master explained.
–Kehlog Al-Bran’s The Profit
Seen one rotation, seen them all. Needs livening up a bit…add a celebrity chef.
My kitchen doesn’t have to rotate to look messy..
Let me guess, it will not rotate until feb 28th… Not after when those groceries starts to rot and smell. And where is the so called art in this?!
Crash, bang, wallop what a picture fantastic Art in motion. You never know quite how much stuff you have in your kitchen cupboards until it spills out all over the floor. Best bit for me is at 25 seconds in when the drawer suddenly opens.
i like the way the first draw comes out really sarcastically at 0.23…then its just mayhem :p
but if thats art you wanna come see MY kitchen…the only difference is mine doesnt rotate comically and people dont take pictures of it
this is insane…i love it…
i’d love to live in it…
It may be nonsense but I love it. It made me giggle like a small child.
There is something quite anarchic about the desecration of such a ubiquitous space as a modern western kitchen.
I thought about it as a young boy as well: the seven year old that still lives within me finds this highly entertaining, although I too wonder about the mess and smell. Anarchy is easy when you have a poorly paid cleaner to tidy up after you.
It’s a mobile study, but is it art? If I walked down the street and stood in dog poop, would my shoe then be a work of art because it interacted with the environment. There is a fine line between what constitutes as art these days, but if you can relate to it in some way and apply meaning then maybe it is, after all art is meant to provoke, engage, and engender a reaction of sorts. But we can find meaning in anything, can’t we! especially with the help of top knobs telling us that this is art and deserves respect, as with many things in life. Sorry for waffling.
Not art at all! Could watch it for hours though.
Kinda attractive!
I love this. Rarely does contemporary art hit the nail on the head this well. To those who say this is rubbish, you shouldn\’t lump this in with all the pretentious pseudo conceptual drivel clogging up the art world today,. Look at it and think for a minute what this actually communicating. If you can\’t see the powerful emotional message here then… well, I don\’t know what to say to you. Just because its not a painting doesn\’t mean it doesn\’t have value, and just because there\’s a lot of idiotic gimmicky art doesn\’t mean that sometimes an unconventional sculpture doesn\’t work perfectly.
Erm…..it’s different, I suppose.
LC x
As ridiculous and stupid this is… it is quite fun to watch, and the audience gasping along is pretty hilarious. Just wish it span a bit faster…
Is there a live camera feed to this kitchen i want to see it in a month when its gone all manky. i bet if there are people there they’ll be holding their nose. Its a lot better than some of the crap art i’ve seen.
What a complete and utter waste. Why would someone do this?
This isn’t art. This looks like something that would show up on a particularly uninspired episode of myth-busters!
Does anyone know if an overflowing ashtray full of cig butts has ever been entered for a Turner prize, if not might go for it!!
Super piece. Reminds me of Richard Wilsons spinning building cut out….
How very pathetic?
Woah-oooo What a feeeeling….
When yer coooooking on the ceiling!
Oh pitty the water was not running…
Did it break? Was expecting it to go all the way around.
I’d like to see something similar, but a slowly rotating cylinder, with a guy trying to sleep inside it. Art and comedy.
If some ***** can be paid to rotate a kitchen to show, let’s face it, predictable results, I’ll sit in a room throwing jam at the walls for a similar fee. Video rights will be extra.
Any offers?
The worlds first washing machine intended to clean an entire kitchen in one wash was put on show today.
I find it so amusing to read all of the comments about this work. I saw this video a few days ago, and became totally enamored with it. It’s mesmerizing and suspenseful and a bit cheeky, too. I love this piece, because when I looked at it, it made me feel something. What is art but something that is put forth to make others feel…. emotions?
This isn’t a work of art? Of course it is. And your collective hatred of this work just proves that it’s a particularly good one.
Shame to see all that Ikea go to waste.
…hurgggh. i have a bit of an issue with slow destruction…it makes me feel a bit nauseous….
This makes me sick. Wish these people would do something useful with their lives. And look at the tits who keep running behind it, they just crave the power and attention but strole like they don’t. Argh.
I like how it broke down halfway through
I ain’t cleaning this shit up!
What a load of rubbish!
Where is it? I think it’s great although it’s a shame that it kept breaking in it’s first rotation. Maybe those that kept disapearing behind it were not fixing it but winding it up?
I’d like to see it in a month. Is anyone going to pop the escaping leeks back in or would that defeat the object?
Going to continue rotating until next February huh? Doubt it. It can’t even run for 11 minutes without stopping twice. Plus all the electrics within the kitchen failed too. Whilst I have no problems with ‘conceptual art’ this isn’t even very well executed for what it is.
Would have been waaaaaaay better if its rate of rotation randomly changed from that painfully slow speed to say 10rpm and back.
Reminds me of our boat on a wild lake once …
My, I thought there was a glass/perspex plate in front but no … It will smell badly after a while … I wonder what the idea behind this is … maybe i should check on boing boing for this .. yes, I will … otherwise I don’t get it ..
It vaguely reminds you off a kitchen in a student house, doesn\’t it? Dutch students\’ house at least look like that .. male students\’ house .
Hm .. a Dutch person came up with this idea apparently … hm … he must have remembered the story I told him about our boat then .. whoelse would come up with such a thing. The food in art ?
Well, it is probably kinda fun watching it when the clean kitchen starts to rotate but after that?
They apparently took the title of this exhibition for this project. Unless there are deeper thoughts behind this.
Probably not. I wonder what people think seeing that mess of food and appliances and such twirl around … the smell .. Wont be the lucky winner for sure.
Art of food is more like it .. it could have been a symbol for some people\’s kitchen qualities …
I thought this was great, apart from when it stops… Continuous rolling seems to me to be a major part in this concept realising it’s true purpose. Plus, if it’s stopping for technical glitches, then it’s not reflecting well on the artist.
I can’t see why people are complaining about this as a piece though. It’s a very aesthetically pleasing modern art concept. It involves random destruction constantly creating a scewed image in a 3D frame, sometimes it’s just choas and sometimes paterns emerge. It’s also a well designed structure.
Lots of people have brilliant ideas as children, and I’m so glad that some adults make those ideas real to share with us all. Ain’t nothing like the real thing. People who go all the way with their ideas and try them out in the real world are the kinds of people I love the most.
How sad and boring life would be without all the artists people love to hate. I am also glad they get paid – it gives me hope for humanity. A society that doesn’t value it’s artists is no place for me.
People’s lack of understanding of art makes me sad.
i want one
I think the funniest aspect is the grown adults gawking and taking pictures! Getting all excited about the destruction of a kitchen. But hey, if it floats your boat. I was curious enough to watch a bit, so I admit the concept is a bit interesting, but not for long. The first big mess (and the initial excitement of the audience) made me laugh, then the noise and chaos was disturbing, and then I simply got bored, all in the space of two minutes.