modern art day

I started at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art this time and was transfixed by “A sheet of paper on which I was about to draw", as it slipped from my table and fell to the floor,’an installation by Ryan Gander (from London) of three huge photographs of the artist in his studio watching a piece of paper float to the floor and 100 large crystal balls laser etched with images of the piece of paper and (seemingly) half filled with liquid as you looked into the balls (you had to get down on your knees on the floor) you saw different perspectives of the room you were in and the people in it. It was quite lovely.

Then I wandered around the Institute of Art for the rest of the afternoon. ... well actually I sat beside the fountain in the courtyard reading bits and pieces of Mieke Bal's work (University of Amsterdam) on visual inquiry for a while and then wandered. In relation to what we are here for, I was very struck by Lawrence Weiner's words on the wall of the new modern wing that seemed to speak to all the issues and dilemmas of the 'crisis of representation' that seem to trouble qualitative researchers so much. i tried to do a panorama of the whole quote, but its come out a little skewed  I suspect: