“Sense of Government” Installation
BJ Krivanek Art & Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1996
Description
This public artwork installation in the lobby of a state govenment high-rise inscribes the quotations of local children on ephemeral acrylic panels. Individual suspended letters (Regime, Authority, Legality, Protector, Order) provide clues to the children’s ideas of what government is.
Collectively, the quotations convey to the general public a questioning of government, along with a sense of amazement that this ponderous system manages to function, held aloft by our fragile system of beliefs. The installation infiltrates the architecture of the building, appropriating the language of monumentality to embrace the voices of an overlooked community of children.
Collections:
Design of Understanding 2
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Information design
Format:
Exhibit, Graphical interface, Information graphic, Signage
Credits
- Design firm
- BJ Krivanek Art & Design
- Design director
- BJ Krivanek
- Environmental designer
- Joel Breaux
- Photographer
- Jeff Kurt Petersen
- Writer
- The Children of Riverside, Illinois
- Typeface
- Futura (digitally modified)
- Fabricator
- Fabrication Arts
- Client
- The Riverside Arts Foundation
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