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


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“The play was about everybody talking at the same time and not being able to understand each other, right?” asked one resident. “It was about money” asserted her friend, adding beneath her breath something about the fact that Bloomberg should have been here to see it, concluding with a resolute statement, “money is the problem.” Of the multiple encounters that took place during the First Day of greg.org Monument it was this quick exchange, which happened inside the newspaper office as we looked at the layout for today’s issue the one that expressively captured the civic character of art. Others have said it before that art is a dynamic force that forms give-and-take relationships between individuals by authorizing evaluation and thinking. Certainly both observations are illuminating in that each relate to the “civic” by reflecting concerns of everyday life: civil society and government. Furthermore, this inaugural exchange pointed to the triangular relationship between government, architecture, and despotism. Is the necessity for a reinvention of democracy a call for a reinvention of architecture?