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2.26.2005
Art or Espionage?

In 2002, a US taxpayer who makes video art happened to shoot footage for a multimedia project while driving through the Holland tunnel. A week later, US agents tracked her down from her license-plate number to ask why.

Point being, the question posed by Nave Gallery's "Art or Espionage?: Photography in the Era of The Rule of Statutory Law" is not merely rhetorical.

Some of the 11 taxpayers who make art in this group show blur the lines between the two by incorporating the visual language of surveillance (Taxpayer Susan & Bill's shadowy infrared and night-vision shots; Taxpayer Kelvy's cell-phone photos); others simply defy the suspicions that now accompany the photographing of tunnels, skyscrapers, and other feats of taxpayer engineering that certain taxpayers on the planet would like to destroy (Taxpayer Frank's shot of Logan Airport; Taxpayer Don's arresting view of The Taxpayers' Bridge).

The exhibit opens with a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. and runs through March 26. The Nave Gallery is at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Boulevard in Somerville; call (617) 625-4823.

The art of Taxpayer Don.

Taxpayer Don - Explorer or spy:

"I'm never furtive. roaming the pits and girders, often at night, in day-glow vest and hard hat, tripod over my shoulder, two cameras that shoot 6x9 cm. negatives slung around my neck. I've been to the tip of The Taxpayers' Bridge north tower, and to the hazy battlefield under Fort Point Channel where taxpayer crews struggled to plug the blow-out that occurred in September 2001. In The Taxpayers' Tunnel tunnel with the ventilators off, I heard a tugboat passing overhead. I like the kaliedescope of intermediate states that arise as the project progresses. Often I never see a soul, but if there's a taxpayer work crew, I greet them and make sure I won't be in their way. My photos are on the Big Dig website. The taxpayer engineers love them because they glamorize their profession, and because I sometimes succeed in catching the engineering nuances. Several were used by the team that built the Fort Point Channel tunnel when they entered an world taxpayer competition. I have made around 6000 images since 1993. I think I'm a boon to the history of the Boston taxpayers and to the science of taxpayer engineering. But, I have done this project with absolutely no US agent 'credentials'."








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