Day 2 - Modern "Art"

The Georges Pompidou Centre was built in the late 70's and was controversial from day one. The building is constructed inside-out with all the HVAC, plumbing and other things on the outside of the buidling. This allows them to move the interior walls around to suit whatever the current exhibition needs.  It also means there are no bathrooms above the first floor, and those are pretty sad (perhaps more will be said about toilets in a future post on life in Paris).

The centre is second only to New York's MOMA for modern art, at least according to the press release. The premiere exhibit at this time is Modern Art by Women. They seem to be expressing their anger at centuries of domination in the Arts by men, but the unfortunate end result is that the domination appears to be justified.
Some of the highlights included:
- a video of a woman's mouth going wah-wah-wah in about a 30 second cycle (shown below)
- a video of a woman in army fatigues crawling through a battlefield with a bass fiddle on her back with the Beatle's Revolution #1 playing in the background  (shown below)
- a gumby like lump on a trapeze
- a floor with bits of ceiling tile that have fallen from above

I guess Edith and I don't get modern art...