French artist Christian Boltanski has taken over the Park Avenue Armory with his piece titled "No Man's Land." The installation opens today, and runs through June 13th—its centerpiece is a 25-foot-high pile of clothing, and a 5-story crane. In their two-page review, the NY Times describes what to expect upon entering the hall: "Every few minutes, in an act meant to resonate with the arbitrariness of death and survival, the crane’s giant claw will pluck a random assortment of shirts, pants and dresses from the mound then release them to flap back down haphazardly."
As a visitor, you get to watch this as the sound of human hearts beat around you. In fact, you can record your own heartbeat for the artist to use. Boltanski told the paper, “You can hold onto the clothes, and even the heartbeats of many, many people. But you can’t keep anybody.”
