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I Would Prefer Not to

其他書名	Installation in Artspeak's Windows
出版	Artspeak, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Qr6QnQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Lucy Pullen's project, I Would Prefer Not To, plays an ineffable game. Occurring between February 12 and March 21 (bracketing the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games), Pullen produced blinds for Artspeak. The blinds, made from a reflective fabric that Pullen has explored extensively in past work, will remain drawn for the 38 cumulative days of the Games. During the day, the blinds appear silvery grey, but in the darkness they will reflect light sources (from street lamps, cars, revelers, protesters) with a blinding brilliance. Both exclusionary and interactive, Pullen's gesture questions meaningful resistance and indifference. The title borrows from Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener (1853), an existential tale of isolation and passive resistance in the mid-century Wall Street environment of New York. The gesture to pull the blinds on Artspeak, making it an impenetrable space, calls into question participation in the social, ethical, and economic conundrums surrounding the Games. Pullen's accompanying text investigates the idea of a blind spot within the spectacle, positing Artspeak in a position of complicated refusal.