Creative Time presents Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum
Today marks the closing of British artist Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum, the sprawling installation in the old Essex Street Market space on Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. It’s an ambitious project that manages an eeriness and subtle care and respect for the otherworldly and absolutely mundane in the daily lives of residents long gone, and further removed from us by the urban crypt-like fashion in which it’s all presented. The scale alone shouldn’t lend itself to such a personal trip, and particularly not now that everyone is trying to see it, but I couldn’t think of a more apt title for the installation.
Ever so close to Halloween, without absolute seriousness, I would call it a haunted house for the Lynchian set — a real world manifestation of Inland Empire — heady and surreal. This Flickr set will give you an idea.
Don’t take my word for it, though. It’s open for the last time, before its inevitable conversion into lucrative commercial space, from Noon-6pm.
The Old Essex Street Market
117 Delancey Street @ Essex Street, Southeast Corner
FREE
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