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Target
Assault
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DUMBO Arts Festival 2007 |
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| Target Assault, a visual assault on a potential
terrorist target, the Manhattan Bridge, by a weaponless
naked figure. While debate continues in Washington D.C.
as to what constitutes a potential target, confused by
vested interests fighting over money allocations, New Yorkers
understand that their bridges are more than landmarks,
more than transportation infrastructures; they are functional
icons of the integration of communities; physical and conceptual
connectors that are precious and more of a potential for
damage to the city than any Washington D.C. crony could
ever imagine. That said, no matter how much money could
be allocated to protect specific sites, it is impossible
to imagine all possibilities... a culture of war and isolationism
is the real threat. Inclusiveness and community building,
globally, like the New York model of connected communities
IS where the solution lies. |
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| Target
Assault shows a nude figure, devoid of all potential
harm, climbing the structure, traversing a portion and
returning to the ground. It is a projected image, further
offering no potential harm to the structure, leaving
no trace, yet presenting a powerful image of intervention,
of interaction between the most basic human form and
the structure. A strange hybrid of tactical assault and
embrace, emphasized by the use of the V.R.A.G. (Video
Remix Artillery Gun), a projection device used in previous
DUMBO festivals and Drive-By performances, that mimics
the form and ability of an artillery gun, to throw video
in multiple directions and change content on the fly...
Set up on the street, like any terrorist could do at
any time with a real weapon, shooting up to the underbelly
of the bridge and to the footings, demonstrates the futility of trying to
protect the structure and still keep it in service... the structure is vulnerable
because it should be, as any connection between communities, between peoples
is vulnerable. The only way to protect it from all possibilities is to isolate
it and not use it. Just like we can protect the conceptual connections through
building community, so can we protect the structures through global community
building. |
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| see proposal / request for locations for Target Assault 2010 |
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