Monday, April 14, 2008

to continue

What is interesting about Gonzalez-Torres was that he was using a public method of communication to talk about AIDS in everyday life. The empty bed, the candy, etc. were (in my understanding of his work) about bringing awareness through his personal experience, to a crisis that encapsulated New York and the rest of the world in the early 80's - 90's.

It's interesting for you to make that connection between his work and our proposed idea about using advertising space for our work in the subway stations. I like the idea of bringing "women's work" into the public realm in much the same way, through our cleaning the subways, and potentially through using advertising space in the stations and above ground. Using very simple images perhaps of us doing the work, or other images we choose to use could be very powerful.

Perhaps we can collaborate on a proposal for the Artist in the Marketplace residency at the Bronx Museum, as well as Art in Odd Places for the Meatpacking District.

So...Thursday to infuse the train cars, and possibly clean a station. That sounds great. Time? Location? Train line? Are we still working on the E?

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