TOWNE CENTER

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Mobile 49: +Towne Center+

An existing space may outlive its original purpose and the raison d'etre which detremines its forms, functions and structures; it may thus in a sense become vacant and susceptible of being diverted, re-appropriated and put to a use quite different from its original one. -Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

Mobile 49 parked at Towne Center, Greenport, NY

The Towne Center project was a series of ten written and performance works created for FM broadcast. A set of interventive projects were arranged as a critical response to a site that has significant impact on the daily lives of local residents in Greenport, NY. Towne Center included projects by Maximilian Goldfarb, Louise Bourque, Norman Douglas, Joe Milutis, Laura Kunreuter, Ant, Ross Cisneros, John Weber, and Oliver Lutz. Transcripts, images and other ephemera from these performances have been compiled into a limited edition book/disc format which was later Included in the exhibition, Transgression and Excess at Space Other Gallery, Boston MA. The project was funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT. A pdf of the book can be downloaded below. Contact argot@m49.us to order a hard copy.

The platform used for this broadcast, the M49, is a retrofit radio-utility truck (a Grumman Kurbmaster stepvan), which has been outfitted for mobile radio transmission and other additional applications.

TowneCenter.pdf