Durable goods orders fell
by 1.2 % in September, while the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers» index (PMI) fell to barely over the 50
mark in October, the level that separates expansion from
contraction.
It is
marked by the failure of pelvic floor muscles to relax, or a paradoxical
contraction of the pelvic floor muscles, with defecation.
In a series of encounters with art made strange
by its expansions,
contractions, inversions and implosions in time and space, The Quick and the Dead surveys more than 80 works
by a global, multigenerational group of 50 artists, scientists and musicians — among them James Lee Byars, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Harold Edgerton, Ceal Floyer, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Pierre Huyghe, The Institute for Figuring, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Christine Kozlov, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Paul Etienne Lincoln,
Mark Manders, Kris Martin, Steve McQueen, Helen Mirra, Catherine Murphy, Bruce Nauman, Rivane Neuenschwander, Claes Oldenburg, Roman Ondák, Adrian Piper, Roman Signer and Shomei Tomatsu, among many others.