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Mnemonics and Pneumatics

  • Project: Mnemonics and Pneumatics
  • Book: I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School
  • Editor: Frances Richard
  • Publisher: The New School
  • Location: New York
  • Year: 2019

“Mnemonics and Pneumatics” is a short monograph that responds to Rita McBride’s permanent site-specific installation, Bells & Whistles (2013), commissioned by The New School Art Collection Advisory Group. Bells & Whistles is a 530-foot-long bespoke brass sleeve that encases the egress-stair pressurization ducts in The New School’s University Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

“Mnemonics and Pneumatics,” I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School, ed. Frances Richard (New York: The New School, 2019). Commissioned monograph on Rita McBride’s Bells and Whistles, a site-specific work at The New School’s University Center, pp. 191-94.

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2019

 

Robert Kirkbride reads excerpts from his essay, “Mnemonics and Pneumatics,” at various locations of Rita McBride’s 2013 site specific installation, Bells & Whistles, in The New School University Center. This video was produced to accompany the launch of the book, I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School.

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