GRAMSCI MONUMENT

2012

HOME PROGRAM LOCATION THE PROJECT THE MAP ABOUT GRAMSCI CONSTRUCTION DISMANTLING PRESS-KIT
A WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE BY THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, PRODUCED BY DIA ART FOUNDATION NEW YORK
LOCATED AT FOREST HOUSES, THE BRONX - NEW YORK CITY, SUMMER 2013
"Every
human being
is an
Intellectual."
Antonio Gramsci


AMBASSADOR’S NOTE 29

The two basketball hoops that serve as props in the Gramsci Theater on Mondays reiterate the question: love or politics, politics or love. Could we say, perhaps, that the point is not to choose between these two different but urgent priorities? Could we say, in other words, that the challenge is to contend with both? Elevated a couple feet from the ground, the monument functions as an enormous stage where people play out their game. And it is precisely this kind of elevation what gives a lift only to put emphasis between intention and action.

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