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Program<\/em>, produced for The Three Rivers Arts Festival, 7 – 23 June, 1996.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quotations and underlying images running throughout the program guide were compiled by Group Material as our contribution to this year\u2019s public art component of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Points of Entry: A Community Based Public Art Project<\/em>. We have integrated the Festival\u2019s schedules and information with a constructed \u2018dialogue\u2019 from interviews conducted spontaneously on the street, during a radio call-in program, and from scheduled discussions in homes and offices. Several excerpts are reproduced from previous writings by architects, critics and designers. All texts are represented anonymously to de-emphasize attributes normally used to categorize identity\u2014 such as location of residency or institutional affiliation\u2014and instead highlight actual statements.<\/p>\n

The questions we raised with interviewees were largely about their experiences using the city, neighborhoods and public spaces, recent relevant changes, personal and collective histories, functions of urban festivals and the cultural, corporate, and consumer entities that administrate, support and visit such events. The linked fragments can be read as a textual chain that was not conducted as a dialogue in real time, but should convey a logic of interconnectedness between topics.<\/p>\n

As \u2018community\u2019 and \u2018public\u2019 are amorphous terms it is crucial to question the ideological underpinnings and context as well as the character of social constellations at work when they are invoked. Given recent trends toward professionalization of community-based art alongside privatization of public space, we decided to investigate the term \u2018community\u2019 in relation to the festival itself.<\/p>\n

Our project is not a sociological or scientific survey, nor is it a random sampling of Pittsburgh residents and there is no pretense of objectivity here. The overarching goal of the project is to introduce unarticulated perspectives and voices into the official festival arena and to construct a picture of \u2018community\u2019 and \u2018the city\u2019 as indeterminate and contested by introducing unexpected observations, critiques, and agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Group Material, \u201cProject Statement,\u201d Three Rivers Arts Festival Program<\/em>, 1996<\/p>\n

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Collection of quotations from residents of Pittsburgh for\u00a0Program.\u00a0<\/em> _(link)<\/a><\/p>\n

PDF of entire work _(link)<\/a><\/p>\n

“Point of Entry” – publication produced by Three Rivers _(link)<\/a><\/p>\n

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