http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/TheBruceHighQualityFoundation Recent or recently updated pages on the Whitney Museum of American Art website &copy; 2012 Whitney Museum of American Art en-us Economy <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/2010Biennial/TheBruceHighQualityFoundation</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/TheBruceHighQualityFoundation"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0015/1326/blank_319.png" /></a></p> <div><p>The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a group of anonymous artists, uses performances and pranks to critique the art world. For the work on view in <i>2010</i>, the Foundation repurposed an iconic vehicle as a &ldquo;portable museum,&rdquo; a site for both reviving and putting to rest American cultural myths. Designed to be both an ambulance and a hearse, the Cadillac Miller-Meteor has been used to care for the dying, transport the dead, and as a prop in the movie Ghostbusters. The title of this work refers to Joseph Beuys&rsquo;s 1972 performance <i>I Like America and America Likes Me</i>. Upon arriving in New York from his native Germany for his performance, the artist was bundled into a Cadillac ambulance and shuttled to an art gallery, where he kept company with a coyote for three days before returning directly to the airport. Beuys&rsquo;s personal, ritualized confrontation with the United States is revisited here as a collective experience. A video projected on the windshield surveys a contemporary culture defined by YouTube clips, Hollywood movies, and news media. The voice-over describes an ambivalent, yearning relationship with the United States, as if the country were a dysfunctional family member or abusive lover.</p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:20:17 -0400 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/TheBruceHighQualityFoundation http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/TheBruceHighQualityFoundation