#william corwin

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“His voice is casual, almost like a spirit emerging from the grainy images of forbidden places and forgotten people he presents in his talk.”

William Corwin, on photographer Christian Walker, published in The Brooklyn Rail, Volume 23, Issue 9

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Current West 10th Window artist Lauren Clay's work is also on view in Politicizing Space at John Jay College of Criminal Justice - check it out  through March 31!

"The architecture and art of the urban space can be used to control lives of its inhabitants: they can restrain their movements and install hierarchies beneficial to those in power. Politicizing Space presents the following eleven artists who critique and reinterpret some of the aesthetic gestures and symbolic mechanisms of control - Paul Anthony Smith, Filipe Cortez, Lan Tuazon, William Corwin, Andrew Ross, Allan McCollum, Carin Riley, Kara Rooney, David Goodman, Frauke Schlitz, Lauren Clay. 

As we are entering political climate of self-mythologizing and interpretation of events bearing little or no reference to actual history or data we are also witnessing return of architectural and urban strategies that reinforce class-structures and inequality. Events in the twentieth century, as well as the very recent ones, remind us that politically minded contortions and suppression of the once thriving metropolis are not relegated to history. We have to be vigilant in the pursuit of rational management of resources and suppression of aggressive behavior so that a similar fate does not befall cities worldwide. Art can be an important tool in such efforts."