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Culture: Art: Performance
freeway chapel performance art   (+3, -1)  [vote for, against]
... they are the cathedrals of out time ...

In the movie "True Stories" (see it, it's worth it) This guy says "Freeways are the cathedrals of our time" That line really stuck with me. I have a love-hate relation with these super structures, and since I never drive anywhere, I often get to see them up close-- (they're bigger than you think they are, if you always stay in a car)

I'd like to do a performance art piece where a modern church service, in praise of modern things would be held in one of the towering empty spaces beneath a freeway. Music would be composed to sound holy when mixed with the nose of roaring cars. The priest would stand on top a heap of crushed cars and have a television for a head.

There could even be freeway monks who would walk among the huge columns singing harmonic songs about the beauty of speed.
-- futurebird, Jun 30 2001

Survival Research Labs http://www.srl.org/
Some of their shows are a bit like what you describe. I've attended one under an overpass - the cement pillars and empty space made for a good fire- and noise-friendly area. [jutta, Jun 30 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]

The Fremont Troll http://emperor.tidb.../adam/photos/troll/
All-gargoyle use of subsuperhighway space; often decorated by locals. [hello_c, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Mephista: there are many such places in Seattle. It's hilly here and the freeways use a combination of earth cuts and pillars to keep the roadway more or less level.

The troll that hello_c linked to is under a bridge that leads from a small hill, over a lake, to a larger hill.
-- wiml, Jul 01 2001



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