Pierre Huyghe This is not a Time for Dreaming, 2004
Puppet show and film super 16 mm, transfered onto Béta Digital (color, sound)
Duration: 24 min
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
"This is Not a Time for Dreaming" is a puppet musical and a film that explores the creation of Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard.
The puppet figures of the film include an abstract black figure representing Harvard, the dean of deans, Le Corbusier, Josep Louis Sera, the dean of Havard's architecture school, Eduart F. Seckler, the first director of the Carpenter Center, Pierre Huyghe himself, Scott and Linda, co-curators of Huyghe's project, and a red bird. The narrative juxtaposes different temporalities of Le Corbusier planning the building, and Pierre Huyghe working on his commission. It blends the fantastical and historical, featuring music by Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varese, who collaborated with Le Corbusier in the past.
"This is Not a Time for Dreaming" presents a narrative about the relationship between the artist and their context, highlighting architecture as part of a larger organism. The work reflects Huyghe's ongoing themes of narrative structure and the processes of representation, going beyond just the construction of the building to consider the complexities involved in its production and the artist's exhibition-making.
The film is held in the following collections:
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Paris; Cranford Collection, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art (promised gift); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kunstmuseum Basel.
The puppet figures of the film include an abstract black figure representing Harvard, the dean of deans, Le Corbusier, Josep Louis Sera, the dean of Havard's architecture school, Eduart F. Seckler, the first director of the Carpenter Center, Pierre Huyghe himself, Scott and Linda, co-curators of Huyghe's project, and a red bird. The narrative juxtaposes different temporalities of Le Corbusier planning the building, and Pierre Huyghe working on his commission. It blends the fantastical and historical, featuring music by Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varese, who collaborated with Le Corbusier in the past.
"This is Not a Time for Dreaming" presents a narrative about the relationship between the artist and their context, highlighting architecture as part of a larger organism. The work reflects Huyghe's ongoing themes of narrative structure and the processes of representation, going beyond just the construction of the building to consider the complexities involved in its production and the artist's exhibition-making.
The film is held in the following collections:
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Paris; Cranford Collection, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art (promised gift); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kunstmuseum Basel.