PATERSON ZEN GARDEN

In the historic center of Paterson, NJ, behind the Paterson Silk Machinery Exchange building, the organizers walked along a path in the woods and stopped in front of two metal podiums protruding from the bushes along the path. A small image of М. Craig- Martin, given to Olga Zaikina by Andrei Monastyrski via Ethan Bien as a factography for the CA's action No. 169 was attached to one of the podiums and then covered with a piece of pink silk. The other podium was affixed with a small QR-code linked to the YouTube video of Richard Serra working in Bochum, Germany, in 1979 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKXT_zmtdGg). The other side of the path featured a stone wall; a reproduction of a black-and-white photograph by Logo Oluwamuyiwa which Sabine Haensgen had brought from a recently seen exhibition at MoMA was attached to that wall. The enclosed, gallery-like space of this section of a path was also coincidentally marked by large black trash bags around this particular area which were there before the organizers arrived. 

 

September 3, 2023

Paterson, NJ

S. Haensgen, A. Monastyrski, O. Zaikina, A. Kondur, M. Kondur