FIx it, 2009
Installation, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Queens, New York, September 13- March 7, 2010
Situated in the park fix It appears at first to be a typical New York construction site with its iconic blue-painted plywood fence, cut out peepholes, and "post no bills" signs. But as you get closer, and look through the fence one is met with a number of videos, playing on different TV-monitors scattered throughout the construction site area. The videos activate the usual passive and in-between state of the ordinary construction site and are all recordings of people whose labors are in the neighborhood around the Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens), performing various kinds of repairs. Their work is making use of what already exists, instead of throwing it away for something new.