My Piece is Still Running
May 2009
Brooklyn, NY
aerosol paint on cotton
digital video 4 min.
This project plays off of the fashion of early writers who would paint the back panel of denim jackets with their piece. I thought this tradition was rad and wanted to employ this singular identity in a collective way. The performance and documentation serves as the piece.
Taking a graffiti piece I literally broke it up into several smaller pieces by painting it across the back of a row of shirts. The intent was that I would have people wear the shirts and run alongside passing trains. As the runners tried to keep up with the moving train the graffiti piece inevitably was fragmented and subsequently destroyed. However when the runners moved in unison and within proximity of one another it gave life back to the piece and created an entirely new work.
It is in this same way that the internet works by breaking up information into small bits of binary data so that it can be distributed faster and more effectively. The shirts are painted on one side lending to the binary idea of 0 and 1 or active and passive. Permutations of the combination create new work.
Press
Wooster Collective
Alias Arts
i love graffiti.de
Prefuse
Senses Lost
