William Kentridge "The Refusal Of Time" ICA Boston, 2/22/14

Conceptual artist Kentridge from South Africa has his Refusal of Time installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. A five channel video and audio project is very difficult to describe. A 30 minute project takes place in a room with a central "breathing machine", a large wooden metronome that pumps during the installation. All four walls have processional video comprised of black and white clips of dancers, sound comes through megaphones aimed at chairs in various locations in the room. Some video clips have torn paper mosaics arranged by Kentridge that are blown apart in slow motion. The soundtrack is a mixture of horns and tribal songs depicting South Africa. Unlike anything I've ever seen.