More about Phone / Poem
Intervention in public spaces in the city of New York.
López Cuenca sites the everyday not in
content, to be appropriated without intervention,
but in the specific forms of the contemporary
urban environment, above all the signage of
public spaces -the parking & traffic & information
signs of streets and airports. How make
these visible?- so that we can look at, not
simply obey, their regulation of flow &
punctuation of environment. López Cuenca
does nor recontextualize, as it were
aesthetizing in the process by which
signage operates unseen. He
rewires the signs so that we might
rewire our lives.
Charles Bernstein, Rogelio López Cuenca and the Ordinary.