Conversations
2005, 5 and 56 min
Director, Videographer, Editor: Michael Sheridan
Produced for: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Excerpt from The Boston Globe, Weekend Arts and Performance
Friday, February 18, 2005
“Gardner ‘Chairs’ for seeing, not for sitting”
By Christine Temin, Globe Staff
…There are other players in the ”Chairs” project: the Italian/Indian artist Andrea Anastasio, designer of the overall exhibition; museum educator-in-residence Carla Hartman; and filmmaker Michael Sheridan, who documented the making of the exhibition. A six-minute excerpt from his longer behind-the-scenes film is playing outside the museum cafe. Watch Sheridan’s contribution last, so the ”how” doesn’t overtake the ”what,” even though his film is a series of poetic snapshots rather than a dry blow-by-blow.
This is a surprising show, one of resonance and even poignancy, sparked by the Gardner’s copious collections of chairs of various periods and provenances…