What makes art and daily life powerful and prescient is a little thing called consensual reality–that notion that all things are considered real when there’s mutual agreement on the part of the entire community involved. Like this: you and I agree the world is round, it is thusly so. . .even if you or I can’t show a lick of independent proof or pudding for it to go in.
Rinde Eckert’s On the Great Migration of Excellent Birds (originally intended as a choral piece for hundreds of voices) was a wonderful piece of public promise that may not have succeeded on a reception level but electrified my hope and faith in the civically charged consensual reality of public art. (more…)
