MCA Chicago » University of Chicago http://www2.mcachicago.org Wed, 22 May 2013 15:32:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The University of Chicago Rings Their Bells for Martin Creed http://www2.mcachicago.org/2012/the-university-of-chicago-rings-their-bells-for-martin-creed/ http://www2.mcachicago.org/2012/the-university-of-chicago-rings-their-bells-for-martin-creed/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:32:08 +0000 aritchie /?p=437 The London 2012 Olympics are under way and Chicago joined friends in the United Kingdom in ringing in the games with Martin Creed’s participatory Work No. 1197: All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes.

Here at the MCA, we lacked a physical bell so we set our computers to ring digitally at 2:12 am so we would be ringing at the same time as those in the United Kingdom.

Further to the south, University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel rang their bells too, sounding out “God Save the Queen.”

The project seems to have gone off without a hitch. Well maybe there was one problem, but at least no one was hurt.

Or, if you prefer, the disco remix version.

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