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The Art of Th(e)

(Contributors: Marcus Fernando, Carl Craig and John McGie)
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Street Cleaning


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STREET CLEANING

A remnant of one of Th(e)’s forays 
into performance art  STREET CLEANING 
was a non voluntary interactive work 
that Th(e) created to promote interracial 
harmony and good hygiene.

Random samplings of different ethnicities 
would be ‘recruited’ from the streets, 
put in a convertible and run through a 
carwash.

“The car…the car it looks clean. But the 
people…the people…they don’t look so 
good.”

If it wasn’t for a timely outcry that claimed 
this piece was an expression of genocide 
it is highly likely this work would have died 
without a whimper.

The sign is all that remains of the work 
today.




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