Assocreation

Volunteering visitors were re-dressed in business suits and then hung on hooks above the sidewalk in New York City's Meatpacking District.

"Freed from the ground, the business suits become a kind of harness or straitjacket, in which the wearer is carried by the suit itself. The public hanging becomes a sensory diagram of the everyday logistics and mechanics of power by displacing the active viewer through a physical conceit. As the participants dangle, they can gaze at the aphorising slogan: 'Freedom is a piece with no ground' written with fluorescent chalk upon the pavement below. The installation scrutinizes the conflict between the yearning to be a free functioning individual and the need to cooperate." Adam Kleinman

860 Washington St @ Atlas Meats
New York, NY 10014, USA
April 21 and 22 2005, 6 - 9 pm

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FREEDOM

Austria becomes free!

Atelier Assocreation - Schönbrunner St 48
1050 Vienna, A
September 24 2004 - Feburary 24 2005

FREEDOM A Public Hanging

A piece with no ground. Photoprint 10" x 10". A Public Hanging. Photoprint 10" x 10". First you loose the feeling in your fingers. Photoprint 10" x 10" / Video
Volunteering visitors were re-dressed in business suits and then hung on hooks above the sidewalk in New York City's Meatpacking District. "Freed from the ground, the business suits become a kind of harness or straitjacket, in which the wearer is carried by the suit itself. The public hanging becomes a sensory diagram of the everyday logistics and mechanics of power by displacing the active viewer through a physical conceit. As the participants dangle, they can gaze at the aphorising slogan: 'Freedom is a piece with no ground' written with fluorescent chalk upon the pavement below. The installation scrutinizes the conflict between the yearning to be a free functioning individual and the need to cooperate." Adam Kleinman 860 Washington St @ Atlas Meats New York, NY 10014, USA April 21 and 22 2005, 6 - 9 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------- o FREEDOM Austria becomes free! Atelier Assocreation - Schönbrunner St 48 1050 Vienna, A September 24 2004 - Feburary 24 2005
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