The Encampment on Roosevelt Island may have been a crazy public art project but it was a good kind of crazy. During its 3 day run it produced photos of the 100 tents the remains of the abandoned smallpox hospital at the souther tip of the island and various Manhattan and Long Island City backdrops. The installation, put together by artists Thom Sokoloski, focused on the island's days as a lunatic asylum, prison, ward for abandoned babies and other happy uses that have nothing to do with today's condos and apartments.
"The refulgent atmosphere conveys an apparitional encounter of the obfuscated recapitulation of the island. Allowing the souls of today to take a descry of the abomination that occurred here many years ago."
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Are there people actually staying in those tents? It sort of reminds me of when Centenary had the City of Hope in front of the Gold Dome a year and a half ago. It definitely makes for interesting photos but I'd like to know more about it.
no people are not actually staying in them, but the people were allowed to look inside them
And i tried to find more info but everything i found came up the same thing that i posted
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