<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>1</h2> <p>AN UNLOOSING OF LIGHT ON NEW YORK CITY Turn on the lights: turn the light, twist the light, braid the light with non-light. Not a monolith but multitudes, particles, bits, a composite of individuals. Not a single, hefty, rigid pole but a cluster of smaller poles. Not a single pole cluttered with different functions but a bundle of tubes, a braid of tubes. Each tube, each strand of the braid, has its own separate function: street light – sidewalk light – traffic signal – pedestrian crossing signal – street sign – traffic sign – street furniture. The braid is braided only so that it can be unbraided, only so that each separate function can exist on its own: flying functions, floating functions, free at last. Where a certain function is needed, one strand pulls out from the braid, like a system of feelers, like tentacles. Each strand stretches, loops, reaches, as far as it needs to perform its service. Where multiple functions are needed, multiple strands pull out in different directions, like the unfolding of a flower, like a spread of branches. Not a pole like a vertical clothesline onto which lights and signs and signals are hung, tacked on. Each strand of the braid grows into a light/sign/signal – it splits and expands and contracts -- it becomes a light/sign/signal. A fluidity, a continuity, of support and function. A wave from support to function. A wave over the sidewalk and out into the street. Waves over New York. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/city_lights/index.html">New York City Lights</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2004/index.html">2004</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Braid-Knot-Weave/index.html">Braid-Knot-Weave</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Eduardo%20Marques/index.html">Eduardo Marques</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Lights/index.html">Lights</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/New%20York%20City%20Lights/index.html">New York City Lights</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Split-Separate-Strips%20and%20Strands/index.html">Split-Separate-Strips and Strands</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Streets%20and%20Plazas/index.html">Streets and Plazas</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stretch-Overlap-Tentacles%20and%20Feelers/index.html">Stretch-Overlap-Tentacles and Feelers</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Unbuilt/index.html">Unbuilt</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/United%20States/index.html">United States</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/165/LIGHTPOLE 1.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/165/LIGHTPOLE 1.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/165/LIGHTPOLE 1.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>