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We Deserve Scheme Z.
This is a Reclamation
Artists Project in 1990 at the height of public outcry against "the
Big Dig" in Charlestown-a five tiered eight-lane expressway interchange,
part of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project for Greater
Boston. A gas pump contains a video monitor showing Boston rush-hour
traffic with the audio track overdubbed several times until it sounds
like babble. A dead bird covered in oil lays where the price per gallon
is usually displayed. The word "Mobiline" is taken from Duchamp's
"love gasoline" the substance activating the Bride's motor in his
work "The Bridge Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even" in the Phildelphia
Museum of Art.
Excavation or the
Law of Diminishing Returns.
l994 Reclamation
Artists project about the same highway system. North Point, Cambridge.
Replicas of Duchamp's Readymades appear to be strewn along an excavated
highway. This installation is on the site of the (now under construction)
Central Artery. The installation was intended to "disturb the peace"
of Modernism as Duchamp had done and as the highway construction is
presently doing.
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