UNTITLED (SPY ROCKS) AND UNTITLED (SPY STUMP) 2006
Outdoor installation

I referred to an incident from January 2006, when Russian authorities discovered that British agents had placed a ‘spy rock’—a fake rock with a hidden transmitter that they then used to upload classified information onto their PDA’s—in a Moscow park.  I created six spy rocks, each with different functions, and a spy tree stump and placed them within the confines of Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens, New York.  These spy objects, however, did not actually perform their surveillance functions but rather raised political questions to viewers.

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