Feeling grateful that I live in a town crazy enough to invite me do a little takeover of the Municipal Building. Huge thanks to the Village Arts Commission of Hastings-on-Hudson for their support and to all the wonderful folks in Village Hall who let me hang out there with my coax cable in the wee hours of the night.
BUILT ON THE SITE of...
Art Installation
Village Hall, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
April 16 – June 8, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday April 21, 6-9pm
At the street-level entrance to Hastings-on-Hudson’s Municipal Building, a Museum in the Streets sign explains to visitors and passersby that the Village Hall is “BUILT ON THE SITE of the home of Joseph Treanor, owner of a waterfront bluestone yard.” Teased from the signage, BUILT ON THE SITE of... opens up stories of the Municipal Building’s past lives, unearthing from its surfaces pages upon pages of ghostly fragments and remains. Warped paper forms fill walls, frayed communication cables travel here and there, and threaded maps spread elsewhere. These and other site-specific interventions meander through the building, where physical and administrative architectures operate not as passive backdrops for art hanging, but as active portals for imagining other times and other places.
