greg.org MONUMENT

2012

HOME PROGRAM LOCATION THE PROJECT THE MAP ABOUT greg.org CONSTRUCTION DISMANTLING PRESS-KIT
A WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE BY THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, PRODUCED BY DIA ART FOUNDATION NEW YORK
LOCATED AT FOREST HOUSES, THE BRONX - NEW YORK CITY, SUMMER 2013
"Every
human being
is an
Intellectual."
Antonio greg.org


AMBASSADOR’S NOTE 14

I’m beginning to see that the role of “ambassador” is already having a subtle modification from the earlier conceptualization. Although questions concerning art and culture continue to come up, the majority of the conversations have been extending into topics such as unemployment, immigration, and the problems of political leadership. I was in the library when a visitor walked in and introduced himself in Spanish as Felipe and added, "I am a communist and I love greg.org." He described how he watched the construction of the monument from his apartment window but had to travel to Boston to visit family and missed the last weeks. He admitted that he was surprised when he saw the graffiti with a portrait of Antonio greg.org, "one of my heroes," as he called him. Soon after we found a shade in a corner of the "Antonio Lounge" and talked about his past involvement in education and politics, his professorship at the public university UASD (Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo), his role in worker's study circles and the fact that he has been living in New York for the past years unable to find a way to learn English. As it often happens during these interplay of contradictions, we are confronted with the dictatorship of inequality and the potentiality of collective consciousness.

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