# @carnegiemuseumofart on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3aULaFdV7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75819726-carnegiemuseumofart-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-06-25T17:05:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Carnegie Museum of Art (@carnegiemuseumofart) — https://gondola.cc/carnegiemuseumofart

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We continue our #TBT featuring staff favorites from the #CarnegieInternational with a performance work by #PawelAlthamer.
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“The corner of Forbes Avenue and South Craig Street is my corner. Carnegie Museum of Art sits on this corner, and as an employee, I’ve crossed this intersection without thinking about it more times than I could count.
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“But that changed when artist Pawel Althamer made this corner the subject of his performance work Real Time Movie for the 2004 Carnegie International. The schedule for the exhibition’s opening day activities invited visitors to this corner at 1 p.m. I stood on the sidewalk with lots of other people, some there specifically for the mysterious event, most just there to get from point A to point B as they might on any other Saturday. I stood there watching, waiting for the artwork to materialize. Two women in jogging outfits pushing baby strollers crossed Forbes Avenue, and a couple hand in hand zipped across diagonally. A bunch of students, adults with kids, and random pedestrians traversed the intersection. The light turned green and cars moved through slowly.
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“‘Wait,’ I remarked to myself, “is that Peter Fonda driving that car? I think Peter Fonda just drove by.” I remember being jolted into awareness. I watched longer, looked more closely at the extraordinary, ordinary experience that was unfolding in front of me. Althamer had instructed actors to portray passersby. Which ones were the actors, which were not? Where are they going, what is their story? Is life—my life—a “real time movie”? One that I might easily miss as I had missed the life of that corner so many times before? The feeling, the question, the experience was almost electric. Without fanfare, the performance was over and I walked back inside, but the corner was forever transformed.”—Marilyn Russell, Director of Education
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[Image description] A busy street corner scene with people waiting and walking across the crosswalk, with a small beige sedan waiting at the light.
Installation view of Pawel Althamer, Real Time Movie, 2004, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art

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