World's Fair Cleanup Parade, 2011

 

I re-staged current Times Square sanitation workers dancing with Broadway showgirls in my contemporary reinterpretation of a photo from the archive of the Department of Sanitation taken in 1940 to promote the second year of the World's Fair. This image was exhibited at the Times Square Visitors Center as a digital projection, along with complimentary postcards. The photograph was part of a project organized by “The Work Office (Two)”, a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency informed by the Works Progress Administration.