KENNETH GOLDSMITH & DAVID WONDRICH

Human beings make things, and things break. Sometimes these broken things need replacing, sometimes they just stay there, broken, impaired, in a category of their own that is not defined by questions of usefulness or function. Broken New York is a visual chronicle of entropy in action--a repository of the chipped, the cracked, the rusted-out, twisted, bent, amputated, sheard, smashed, scraped, munched, scrunched, worn, torn, frazzled, frayed, snapped-off, lopped-off, broken-off, dented, dinged, corroded, crumpled, crushed, crimped, creased and generally clapped-out. It is ultimately intended to be a neighborhood-by-neighborhood memorial to the things in this city that are so cheap in human estimation as to be barely worth fixing.




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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

David Wondrich is a Senior Research Fellow at the North Gowanus Institute for Cranial Distempers, where he resides. His work has appeared in numerous journals, from the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature to Esquire.

Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of several books, a DJ on WFMU, a music critic at New York Press and the editor of UbuWeb Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry