The bios imply it's a cerebral art piece, of the kind people outside the domain generically call "conceptual art." The notion being to cause a more self-conscio

The bios imply it's a cerebral art piece, of the kind people outside the domain generically call "conceptual art." The notion being to cause a more self-conscious (re)examination of what's going on in that town (which sounds kind of Atlas Obscura-interesting on its own) by trying to heighten what's absurd or upsetting or "problematic" about it, by drawing attention to it. This kind of intervention is a well-established practice; whether it's successful or interesting (or "art" in a pre-20th century sense) is a different matter. :) -- Joseph Moore is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art at the City College of New York. His work investigates topics such as perception, interpretation, and similarity. [snip] Stephanie Vella is a PhD student in Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she researches European theatrical modernism and its engagement with spatial, temporal, and racial otherness in primitivism, classicism, and orientalism [snip]