It was hard for me to choose just one piece from the show that I liked but I decided to go with Jon Kessler piece. Kessler uses old souvenir postcards from New York City that had the World Trade Center in the skyline and put them on a rotating conveyor belt. Every time the postcards came to a certain point in the cycle it would brush against a small camera. The result was the camera zooming straight into the towers just as the planes that hit them did. I found the piece to be extremely haunting and ironic. It was haunting to have the view of the tragedy from inside the plane that hit the towers. I found it ironic that a tourist's gift to a family member could be used in such an impacting way. On another note, Jon Kessler is going to be a part of this year's Performa Biennial which I am very excited about!
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