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Check It Out

Matthew McCaslin | Check It Out, 1998

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An industrial handcart with VCRs, lights, a clock, and TV monitors depicts walking as a ritualized, gear-laden activity, showing urban commuters wheeling carts, carrying suitcases, and hauling briefcases amid the city’s daily hustle.

Check It Out by Matthew McCaslin is a sculpture featuring four televisions strapped to a rolling cart and showing footage of urban commuters in various locations. In this case, the work encourages contemplation of the everyday ritual of walking commutes using the juxtaposition of multiple moving images. The contrast between the gallery setting and the hustling figures on screen heightens awareness of the movement in different contexts.

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MUELLER, Ellen. Walking as artistic practice. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2023.

APA style reference

McCaslin, M. (1998). Check It Out. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/check-it-out/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

skirr

To hurry about in search of something, to take a short walk, to hike. “Send out horses, skir the country round.” (Shakespeare, Macbeth.)from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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