Art in Odd Places 2021: NORMAL

Upcoming Public Installation-Made in Power, Xiao Yang, 2021

Art in Odd Places 2021: NORMAL curated by Furusho von Puttkammer, with curatorial assistants Yasmeen Abdallah, Lorelle Pais, and Natalie Ortiz along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River will present artists who seek to critique the mythos of the American Dream and the history of American politics. The festival artists will showcase installations and performances along the entire 2.2-mile length of 14th Street from May 14-16. This year the festival will follow social distance guidelines.

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Photo Credit : Noah Herman

Made in Power consists of a Matrix dot-printer with a modern digital shredder which is placed inside of the 24x24”x72” transparent box constructed in 6 pieces of plexiglass, a stack of paper in a roll, 100 inches of “crime scene do not cross” Barricade tape. The “crime scene do not cross” Barricade tape” wrapping around this enlarged transparent “packaging box” which has the matrix printer mounting on the top piece of the box with the shredder placing on the bottom piece of it. The front side of the box has the vinyl letters feature a line of the title of the installation:“Made in Power”. Both machinery apparatus operates at the same time while the output part of the printer with the “pass entry” part of the shredder is connected by the paper when the machines are operating to ensure the printed papers directly fall into the shredder. The printer continually repeats the one and the only printing job of printing the” Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. The nature of this proposed public installation is to keep viewers to be engaged visually as a its nature of forming a dialogue that directly responds to the present occurrences with no physical interaction is needed.