The Public Utteraton Machines build on social practice and urban intervention, in the form of solar powered electronic objects in space, that provide a counter narrative in the form of a public service, to current public art conventions and locations. Currently there is no consistent established feedback system for public art, that asks residents about its role and purpose or even usefulness in public spaces. The privatization of public space, the real estate market and other factors in New York and its boroughs has resulted in clusters of public art (and funding) in certain geographical areas, and not in others.
The Machines function like a 19th C. telephone, are solar powered and results will be archived on this project website and in libraries, for other researchers or interested parties to listen to in the form of mp3 files, and transcribed texts. (utteraton.com).
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
The Public Utteraton Machine is an interactive public art work that looks like a public telephone from the 19th century. Its aim is to install public art in unconventional locations in New York (outer boroughs and sidewalks).
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2015
- Submitted to ArtBase: Monday Feb 26th, 2007
- Original Url: http://utteraton.com/
- Permalink: http://rebecca-h.net/Public-Art-Site-Specific/Public-Art-Brooklyn.html
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Work Credits:
- Rebecca Hackemann, Artist, Manager, coordinator
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Artist Statement
CONCEPTUAL
Currently, little research exists that examines the reasoning behind the locations of public art in New York, as well as what residents might think of it, or wish for it after it has been installed. Whereas 'gallery' art normally has a publicly constituted apparatus of commentary and scholarly interrogation, that surrounds it, public art which exists outside the traditional gallery space paradoxically does not have such an apparatus of dissemination and discourse. There is less public art in the outer boroughs of New York that in the neighborhoods and outer boroughs. The Public Utteraton Machines will, in the form of objects in space provide a counter narrative to this established system of locations. As urban interventions, they will uncover whether people really want, care for or are indifferent towards public art.
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