50,000 Beds Countdown: Two Weeks Left For Hotel Room Video Exhibit
Last weekend, while we were taking in the exhibit 50,000 Beds at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, we heard a fitting variation on the line, "I'd rather be in Philadelphia." As we watched one of the exhibit's videos, all shot in rooms in Connecticut hotels and B&B's, waiting and waiting and waiting for it to resonate, a fellow museum-goer uttered, "I don't understand any of this. I'd rather be at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, looking at the Rembrandts."
We're not sure we would go that far. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, yes. Rembrandt, not so sure. But the point is well taken. This exhibit is, in a word, unsettling. The brainchild of multimedia artist Chris Doyle, the three-venue exhibit consists of 45 videos shot in 45 different hotel rooms. Artspace in New Haven and Real Art Ways in Hartford also have video installations.
The 50,000 figure references the estimated number of lodging beds in Connecticut. The project was funded in part by the state tourism commission, with the idea of enticing people to visit the Nutmeg State.
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