My interest here is primarily in situationist city planning as a
contested site between vexation and pleasure. Somewhere between
playfulness and latent hostility, in a space shared with both the
situationist utopia New Babylon and Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, I’ve
curated a “treasure hunt” through a series of square postcards that
lead the participant in an ultimately circular progression from one
site to the next. Referential to its host space, the work
simultaneously celebrates and subverts its banality.
To engage with the circularity in terms of zen practice is perhaps
productive. If egos (my own, and those of participants) are attached,
it is a prank. If egos are detached, it is a koan. The same
observation can also be made of both New Babylon and Tilted Arc.
–V. Zykov
