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Sandwiched (in New York): A Project along Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn
- PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
- The MIT Press
- PAJ 78 (Volume 26, Number 3), September 2004
- pp. 136-139
- Article
- Additional Information
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 26.3 (2004) 136-139
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Sandwiched (in New York)
A Project along Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn Curated by Jacob Fabricius
Photographs by Larry Qualls
Between September 24 and October 4, 2003, for three hours daily beginning at noon, Danish curator and publisher Jacob Fabricius (www.porksaladpress .org) created an outdoor performance/exhibition along the Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn. Each day he walked along the decidedly downscale shopping street wearing a different sandwich-board with artwork by one of ten artists who contributed to the show. The project was a joint presentation of the Public Art Fund and The Wrong Gallery; the latter, literally a glass door with about two and a half square feet of exhibition space next to the Andrew Kreps Gallery in Chelsea, was established by artist Maurizio Cattelan, curator Massimiliano Gioni, and editor Ali Subotnick. Artists who created works for the Fulton Mall performance include Bernadette Corporation, Leon Golub, Sharon Hayes, Ben Kinmont, John Miller, Aleksandra Mir, Adrian Piper, Julia Scher, Michael Snow, and Valerie Tevere.
About the origins of Sandwiched (in New York), Fabricius has written: "After living and working in Los Angeles for a couple of months, I started taking pictures of guys standing with sandwich boards. I thought, how can you stand there all day dressed up as a hot dog, or a Christmas tree? I thought that the people doing it must be desperate—because they needed the money, or because they couldn't get a 'real' legal job. I took photographs of them for a while, not quite knowing why I was fascinated by these people that were most likely badly paid to dance around and look happy. Maybe it was because I was a tourist and we do not have the sandwich-board advertisement tradition in Denmark. It made me think of how these sandwich-board people—who are often illegal immigrants—were financially 'sandwiched' between a piece of wood and a hard place."
All photographs by Larry Qualls, except September 28, Martin Capella, Courtesy Public Art Fund. [End Page 136]
September 24: Art by Adrian Piper.
September 24: Art by Adrian Piper.
September 25: Art by John Miller.
September 25: Art by John Miller.
September 26: Art by Leon Golub.
September 26: Art by Leon Golub. [End Page 137]
September 27: Art by Aleksandra Mir.
September 27: Art by Aleksandra Mir.
September 28: Art by Bernadette Corporation.
September 29: Art by Valerie Tevere.
September 29: Art by Valerie Tevere.[End Page 138]
September 30: Art by Michael Snow.
September 30: Art by Michael Snow.
October 1: Art by Ben Kinmont.
October 1: Art by Ben Kinmont.
October 2: Art by Sharon Hayes.
October 2: Art by Sharon Hayes.
October 3: Art by Julia Sher.
October 3: Art by Julia Sher.
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