in this multi-city conversation, breakarts artists rachel mcintire, maya erdelyi-perez, robert mauksch, and amanda leigh lichtenstein, along with collaborative artists-friends and students, write poetic snippets addressed to a "universal you" on tags with string. we give these snippets to each other via post, and then tie each other's snippets in spots throughout our respective cities -- chicago, oakland, nyc -- to lamp posts, bicycle handlebars, street lights, fences, and tree limbs.
the project is based on rachel's theory of "particle monologues" -- the notion that each of us carries and rehearses the lost fragments of conversation addressed to a particular "you" -- when that person leaves, dies, disappears, we are still left speaking to that person -- addressing unrequited, undiscovered, unrevealed messages from within. here, in this project, we get to expose, expunge, exalt the voice inside each of us that speaks to another.
a glimpse into what's floating around nyc:
"quitting is courageous."
"listen to your last voice message 3 times. memorize it and perform it."
"just say yes"
a glimpse into what's floating around oakland:
"stand closer. lean louder."
" you smell a bit like yesterday."
"call your mother. call her back from the dead."
"tomorrow night, wander through a tunnel of sound."
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