Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence is currently installed at The Bronx Museum of the Arts from February 1 through April 15, 2001. Witness is a featured project of the Museum¹s Collaborative Art Projects (CAP), an artist-in-community residency program designed to encourage public access to contemporary art through collaborative-based projects and public art interventions.

During October 2000, The Bronx Museum of the Arts partnered with Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry of ConjunctionArts to present the citywide installation Witness. The public art work consist of five traditional police and fire call boxes altered to present photographic images of locations where police violence occurred and an on-going amplified audio testimony given by witnesses, police officers, bereaved parents and survivors of police-related violence. Each call box presents testimonies relating to either an incident of police violence or violence directed at police.

The citywide installation of Witness was conceived as a tour, for 20 consecutive days in October the call boxes were installed on streets marked indelibly by violence and locations where accountability for these acts were determined. These brief and intense encounters lasted no longer than one day in each location, echoing the sudden, jarring nature of police violence. The citywide installation of Witness provided an opportunity for the Museum and ConjunctionArts to expand the role and scope of CAP to include public art interventions and non-traditional modes of collaboration. As part of CAP, Bradley and Tarry conducted over 200 interviews during the tour with various public respondents and viewers. As well as documenting the diverse response to the public artwork, the interview process provided a forum for discussion on the challenges of policing a democratic society.

The Bronx Museum's installation of Witness features the five call boxes, four of which will be located in front of the Museum, an archival light box table featuring images from Witness citywide tour, on-line access to the project¹s website, which includes photographic images and video testimonials, and a video monitor with excerpts from the CAP interviews.