Sound Work Location: Jay Street Subway Station, Dimensions: 30 x 14 x 5 meters.
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Walkthrough Poster, 1973 - Silk screen on translucent paper, 71x42 cm - Design Max Neuhaus - borough Hall subway station, New York
Proposed: 1971, Extant: 1973–1977
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'In Walkthrough, I was interested in making a piece that would be anonymous. After I stopped performing I was no longer required to be a celebrity. The other part of the idea was that it would be discoverable, that anybody had the opportunity to find.
This was a transient space, but not a passage because people moved in diverse ways. The work was subtle but it was also very clear once you heard it, and this idea from Fan Music of making a process that was somehow connected to its environment. Connecting it to the weather made it flex. And there was this other idea about working with this fine level of subtlety. I could do it here because we notice change, even very small changes in a very familiar environment.
This was a piece for the people who went in and out of that subway entrance every day; it wasn't meant for the art world'.
Max Neuhaus, Ed. Evocare L'udibile
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Walkthrough Poster, 1973 - Silk screen on translucent paper, 71x42 cm - Design Max Neuhaus.
Jay Street subway station
Borough Hall, Brooklyn, New York.)
Collection Max Neuhaus Estate
Photo published in book: Max Neuhaus, Les pianos ne poussent pas sur les arbres, Daniele Balit, Matthieu Saladin (éd.), Marie Verry (trad. fr.), Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2019.
