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LETTER TO MY FATHER (STANDING BY THE FENCE), 2005
made while in residency at the LMCC: Workspace Program Residency, 2004
   
 
   

“Letter to my father (standing by the fence)”, uses the fence around Ground Zero as a signifier for division and as a consequence of political mismanagement. The work speaks about the socio-emotional impact that the WTC Site has on its visitors. I asked a number of individuals to take a voice recorder to Ground Zero and speak about "what they saw". The narrative presents the resultant “testimonies” juxtaposed with a text articulated (in first person) by a narrator that asks questions about the dangers of historicizing the present, the meaning of a memorial in a place of big economic projections, the anachronism of a tourism of spectacle and about ideas of nationalism versus a “foreign” identity, based on his experience as an immigrant in the US.