15,000 Pounds of Ice Goes Into NU Sculpture
The newest building at Northwestern was constructed and demolished in the course of a few hours Monday. Beginning at 1 p.m., students and passersby built two 8-foot structures from 375 blocks of ice outside the Block Museum, a re-creation of the 1967 conceptual art work “Fluids.” Inspired by artist Allan Kaprow’s sculpture/performance piece, Northwestern professor Inigo Manglano-Ovalle asked the Block Museum whether they could do something similar on campus. Within a couple weeks, the project was set up, with 15,000 pounds of ice, a dozen gardening gloves and a handful of stepstools ready to go. “There’s something pretty radical about it, because you put all this effort into something that will melt,” Manglano-Ovalle said. It also breaks …
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