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From 1957 to 1969 This Building Was Empty
 

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1999
Continuous black and white 35mm slide projection, dimensions variable
 
"From 1957 to 1969 This Building Was Empty" is a double-slide projection work that investigates the twelve-year closing of St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, under the political climate of McCarthyism. A series of text-slides delivering a narrative chronology of events at the church is projected next to a
static image-slide showing the Church itself and an adjacent subway entrance.
 
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