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Guerrilla Action: Art in the Time of COVID-19
PPE for Antonio López García's "DAY" • A guerrilla installation at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts • 2020
On March 22, 2020, the 2nd day of Spring, my nephew Gabriel Fancher and I—sequestered by the COVID-19 pandemic—decided to enliven the public sphere with a topical guerrilla art installation at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Using colored cling wrap supplies left over from my Fall 2019 wRock wRap installation at the Boston Children’s Museum, we fabricated a surgical mask sized for one of the pair of bronze heads—“Day” and “Night” by Antonio López García, installed at the MFA in 2008—and headed out to the Fenway to create PPE for Antonio López Garcia's "DAY" and help to prevent the spread of the virus.
The project generated press notice (see links below), resonating with arts writers and curators alike. In their Boston Arts Review article “Artists Are Essential Workers: Considering the Role of Art in Public Health,” Amy Halliday and Rebekah E. Moore described this “ephemeral gesture” as “simultaneously playful, provocative, and deeply serious,” and a “powerful example of the intersection of art and public health.”
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