Bunker Flood was a site specific installation at White Columns in NYC. MTAA walled in the gallery’s reception desk with cinder blocks and sand bags in preparation for an invasion. The piece was included in a group exhibition entitled “Tipping Point” curated by Lauren Ross.

Installation shots from White Columns, click the thumbnail to open a larger image in a new browser window:


Text reads:

Dear White Columns,
If Given:

1. our uncertain economic times
2. entropy
3. melting polar ice caps
4. the pop music reign of Britney Spears
5. the fall of the Roman empire
6. smart bombs
7. devolution
8. mad cow disease
9. temptation island
10. the proximity of artworks to Wall Street and the Hudson River
11. culture in a former loading dock
12. random genetic mutations in cloning
13. contagious religious fervor
14. a glass entranceway
15. non-combat trained White Columns’ staff
16. the breakdown in contemporary mob etiquette
17. the “New Pretty” in art
18. the rerun of 80’s paramilitary fashion
19. The World Trade Organization
20. bandwidth-starved unemployed dot-commers
21. the physics of surface tension
22. quake / unreal tournament
23. Initial Public Offerings
24. and the naming of the exhibition: “Tipping Point”

Then, as an act of preservation / prevention, we would like to propose a work entitled:

In Preparation for The Over-Running of White Columns by Hordes of Bloodthirsty Barbarians (AKA Bunker Flood) permanent link to this post