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BRUCE CHARLESWORTH

REALITY STREET

INSTALLATIONS

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Installation detail from Reality Street, 1994

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REALITY STREET functions like a period room in a cultural history museum. A waist-high glass barrier inhibits entry beyond a small viewing foyer.  The alleyway portion of the piece is constructed mainly of wood and plastic. A man’s voice comes from a small portable television. The spoken text is a transcript of a recent (in 1994), randomly-chosen, thirty-minute national news broadcast and its commercials – voiced as if it is the product of a single mind.

Video documentation:

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Bruce-Charlesworth_Reality-Street_installation-detail_1994
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Original Floorplan, 1994

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Left Elevation

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Bruce-Charlesworth_Reality-Street_installation-detail_1994
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Revised Floorplan, 2017

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Right Elevation

Reality Street, 1994, 2:39

Read the full 1994 transcript:

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