Public Art Converges at the Point
Brandon Getz’s article “Public Art Converges at the Point”
M. Michelle Illuminato’s Lost + Found Factory pays tribute to the city’s industrial history, merging it with the personal history of festival-goers as it attempts to manufacture lost things. “She not only wants to make a factory where you can watch things being made,” explains Wasserman, “she also wants to create this sentimental history—she and the artists she brings will try to recreate something you’ve lost.” From your description, the artists will build the item in the “factory” as you watch. “What [Illuminato is] trying to do is expose the hidden labor few of us think about.”
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