Traveling as Art, cont.

Here's a good example of what intrigues me. Regarding Jeanette Doyle's piece called "Star Line Tours" here's a little bit from ArtForum's website critics picks.

"...Combining the languages of video, photography, and painting with sound components, she creates elaborate installations that critically address identity—whether personal or national. In her latest solo show, “StarLine Tours,” all the pieces presented derive from footage she shot during a Los Angeles commercial sightseeing journey focusing on celebrities’ mansions. Two videos reveal the view from the window on the left side of the bus, providing glimpses of bushes, pedestrians, vehicles, and the occasional star’s home... Reflecting LA’s history and spirit, the usual description of tourist attractions is replaced by the faits-divers of the city’s personalities. ...Doyle highlights the consumption that marks current leisure activity, a metaphor for her ethnographic inquiry into the politics of contemporary society." (thank you M. Amado)

I guess this makes sense to me. And it's not too far off from how I'd like to present it. And look! it gets critic's pick! It must be important. Does it all come down to cultural sampling, or rubbing two cultures against each other? Haven't we moved beyond that?

I suppose I would be considered Romantic (Pre-Modern) to want to go to a place and experience that place in itself.