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Installation view, second installment of the five-city project, A Public Space. Exhibited in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
Contributed images produced as C-prints, Catalog/Handout with essay by Dan S. Wang
Dimensions Variable
A Public Space takes place in five cities: Chicago, Houston, Baltimore, San Diego, and Portland. Each
installment focuses on a single public space, inviting six participants from different backgrounds to photograph that space and recommend another participant to do the same. These participants repeat the process, recommending six new participants, and so on. The result is a group of twentyfour images for each city. The images reconfigure the public plaza through multiple perspectives; they are unique, marginally overlapping, or at times, redundant. The composite portrait is both aesthetic and social. Urban planners, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, activists, a pastry chef, atmospheric physicist, and retired minister are a small sampling of included demographics; participants range from a gas station attendant to high school student to the Director of the National Federation of the Blind (who is blind) to scholars and artists.
A Public Space is comprised of one hundred twenty images and five essays. To date, portions of the project have been exhibited at the Berlin Lounge, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Daley Center, Mess Hall, Charles Street Bridge, and Project Row Houses, as well as featured in InterReview and reviewed for Metropolis magazine.
Notes on a Public Space, essay by Dan S. Wang
A Public Space, Overview, including the names of all participants
A Public Space: Hopkins Plaza
A Public Space: Main Street Square
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