December 23, 2003

Public Utilities

From the NYT, a report on a performance art piece consisting of a bathroom, built of one-way mirrors (obscuring the bathroom from the outside), installed in the middle of a sidewalk in London. (The performers, I suppose, are brave passersby.)
It has been in place for only a few weeks, but "Don't Miss a Sec.," a contemporary art installation that is in essence a mirrored outhouse on a construction site near the Thames, has been raising heated, even violent emotions. While it may provide a fine opportunity to indulge in voyeurism and exhibitionism at the same time — like going to the bathroom in the bushes, if the bushes were in the middle of the street — in reality the experience is proving prohibitively unnerving to some.

[via underdog] Posted by johndan at December 23, 2003 08:41 PM | TrackBack