New Views: World Financial Center
2002-2003
One year after LMCC’s World Views artist residency program was displaced from the World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan by the events of September 11, 2001, it found a new temporary home downtown, close to Ground Zero, in the World Financial Center. Made possible through a partnership with the World Financial Center Arts & Events Program, the New Views: World Financial Center program provided space for nine visual artists to create site-specific artwork from May 2002 through February 2003 and display this work in a public exhibition in the World Financial Center from October 2002 through January 2003.
The artists’ work ranged widely including new media art, sculpture, sound art, and participatory installations. The location’s architecture, open spaces, and corporate and retail cultures all played key roles in this program. As Moukhtar Kocache, Director of Visual and Media Art at LMCC said at the time, “The residencies that we currently envisage not only benefit artists by providing them with space, money, and time to create new works within a specific and relevant context, but also provide our community and the general public with the opportunity to respond to the political, psychic, spiritual, urban, and civic realities that have emerged as a result of September 11.”
Participating Artists
May 2002 – Feb 2003
- Anne Beffel
- Jane Benson
- Curtis Cuffie
- Charles Goldman
- Elke Lehmann
- Pia Lindman
- Brian McGrath
- Andrea Ray
- Alex Villar
Support
New Views: World Financial Center was created in partnership with The World Financial Center Arts & Events Program and made possible by generous assistance from the River to River Festival. LMCC is grateful for support from Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Both Ferris Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the New York Mercantile Exchange Charitable Foundation.
