Print After Party: Jason Eppink Dances on Old Media's Ruins

by Jordan Yerman | November 16, 2009 at 03:36 pm

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Artist Jason Eppink has thrown an after-party for dead-tree media... in this case, tiny kinetic sculptures in abandoned newspaper boxes. I think it's rather life-affirming to throw the newspaper boxes an after-party. Hey, if the empire is collapsing, you may as well dance. (I don't agree that print media is truly dead, but it's definitely wounded very badly- still, I love what he's doing here)

These Print After Parties are staged in the empty newspaper boxes of New York City- let us know if you see one. As with larger-scale abandoned spaces, it's only a matter of time before they get repurposed.

Abandoned by floundering media conglomerates, thousands of neglected newsracks command valuable real estate on busy street corners across New York City, remnants of diminishing demand and a disintegrating economy. Many have already been reclaimed and transformed by urban alchemists, whether as canvases for stickers and paint or clever conceptual works that turn the once important vessels of information into repositories for garbage.

A walk down the street—in Greenwich Village, for instance—shows that this approach is not working. Dirty, abandoned and refuse-filled newsracks are commonplace.

(found via boingboing)