Exploring Ai Wei Wei’s Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
My notes:
Washington Square Park
- 3 different groups of people playing folk music
- One of the larger (possibly the largest) of the pieces in “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”
- Lights on either side of the base
- Mirror inside
- Attracts a crowd, including tourists and children
- Looks like a bird cage. Brings to question cage vs fence
- Shape in center seems random
- Minimizes the number of people that can walk through arch
Cooper Union
- Next to crime scene
- Less interactive than the piece in Washington Square Park
- This one blends more with the pre-existing architecture
- Blocks are but not entrances
Both
- There are fences all throughout NYC: a Political Commentary n the immigrant crisis, the proposed wall, and the refugee crisis
- Neither one of these would make particularly good fences
- Both are inside arches
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- The 5 Footers at Cooper Union
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- The 5 Footers at Washington Square Park
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- “Good Fences make Good Neighbors” at Cooper Union
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- “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” at Cooper Union
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