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Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine New York, New York
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The
image of each witness, looming on the granite walls in a 25-foot
high video projection slowed to the point of near immobility,
confronted the viewers. Subtle juxtapositions of images and text
dominated many aspects of the cathedral installation. The various
elements of Witness created a synergy when viewed together, enabling
viewers to consider issues of police violence, brutality, and
misconduct in experiential rather than didactic terms.
Many
different elements were used in the installation, including Media
Role, a 47foot collage of news articles reporting on ten years
of police brutality and misconduct cases and the Call Boxes which
toured the public streets of New York during the fall of 2000.
Also exhibited were illuminated photographs of locations where
police violence took place, such as the exterior of a police car
and, the sidewalk where Gerald Papa, who was brutally beaten in
a case of mistaken identity.
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