We have noticed that the youth of Holbeck have used a local derilict building to create a contemporary tribute to Gordon Matta-Clark's 1976 action 'Window Blow-Out'.
"...But later in the process of installting the show, he arrived armed-literally-with another conception... In each avaliable window casement of the Institute he placed a photograph of a building in the South Bronx... in which the windowns had been broken out... Looking to avoid the trap of merely aestheticized representaition, he secured the anxious permission of the organizer to break a few of the windows that were already cracked. But after a late party at Horace and Holly Solomon's, between one and two in the morning, he returned to the exhibition space and shot holes in each of the windows with an air rifle borrowed from his old mentor Dennis Oppenheim."
description of 'Window Blow-Out' by Thomas Crow
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