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- Will Cervarich
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- "Biography of 100,000 Square Feet"
- Summary: How does a public space fail? Can good intentions separated from reality border on negligence?
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Review of Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
Will Cervarich
Posted on February 06, 2005 at 05:08 PM
A well crafted piece that takes a couple of listenings-to to get everything from it. Sometimes I had a little difficulty understanding the circumstances surrounding and implications of all of the different viewpoints expressed. I felt a little left up in the air about what's happened to the people that used to congregate in UN Plaza. They've been pushed on, but where to? How has the removal of the benches and the fencing-in of the fountain effected the people for-whom this space was the most useful? Well united by contemplative soundscapes, this piece has the feel of the abandoned open-space that is its subject matter. Sometimes the wind blows quickly and sometimes, it's still, but it all amounts to emptiness in the end. Though I've never seen the plaza, I feel very acquainted with it having listened to this piece.