In a loose assembly that examines the issue of political auto-organization, the Contemporary Museum’s Crowd of the Person presents four autonomous projects—each vies for attention and each examines how the individual may attain emancipation.


About the Projects
(Re)living Democracy is a multimedia installation that chronicles the plight of the individual during the process of urban renewal. Artists Lasse Lau, Scott Berzofsky, Nicholas Petr, and Nicholas Wisniewski have collaborated with six artists and community organizations in East Baltimore to document what they consider “the injustices of urban development” during the impending demolition of hundreds of homes in that neighborhood. Interviews with East Baltimore residents documentary photographs, open letters, and homicide memorials depict the resident’s responses to the changes in their community, as well as information about the eminent domain process being employed in the development. More about this project at www.campbaltimore.org.

In Observational Findings, New York-based artist Hope Sandrow examines the relationship between “seeing” and “believing” through video and photographic footage. The centerpiece of the work, which was commissioned by the Contemporary Museum, is a 17 foot long panoramic photograph of a live poetry reading and conversation staged in Baltimore’s Mt Vernon Park in May of 2005.