The Madness of George, 2007

A performative intervention: Two equestrians in historic/futuristic military uniforms circle a 300-year-old iron fence that surrounds Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan. One equestrian paces clockwise inside the fence; another paces counter-clockwise outside. They circle without pause.

The intervention recalls the park's original monument to colonial rule: an equestrian statue of British George III (torn down in a collective act of defiance when the U.S. Declaration of Independence was read in 1776).

Supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - Grants for Art in Public Spaces, Puffin Foundation, Ltd., and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs - Materials for the Arts.