Music influences plants.* But Peter Coffin doesn't really seem to care. The exhibition notes of his installation piece Untitled (Greenhouse) describe Coffin's greater goal:
"This artistic project does not seek to validate scientific theories, as much as it establishes a creative dialogue between different forms of organic life and creates a site for a direct and ongoing engagement with plants that is intuitive, improvised, and undetermined."
In this greenhouse musicians play music for the vegetation using their own instruments or the electric guitar, keyboard, and microphones hidden amongst the leaves. Untitled (Greenhouse) continues an exploration of the theme introduced in the blog's prior post: the creation of art by presenting non-art objects in an aesthetic context. Some people don't think it's art. They should go back to the Armory Show.
On display at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris 01 FÉV - 11 MAR
*See:
"On the Reported Effects of Sound on the Growth of Plants"
Richard M. Klein, Pamela C. Edsall
BioScience, Vol. 15, No. 2, Biotelemetry (Feb., 1965), pp. 125-126
This is an aerial photo I used to use as my laptop desktop, centered against a white background. I'm posting it because it gains artistic value in the same way Untitled (Greenhouse) and the Shikisai shirts do. Through a change in perspective, the suburban landscape becomes art. For example, we look at balance and geometries of urban planning like the composition of a Thiebaud canvas. 
