This week we are featuring Hatuey Ramos-Fermin and his work “Transmit – Transit”. Hautey Ramos-Fermin is a Domincian-born, Puerto Rican-raised educator and multimedia artist currently based in New York City.
In Transmit – Transit he deconstructs an element of local space to investigate a detail of globalization. Working as an investigate journalist or a documental film maker, he has chosen to focus on taxi drivers and their daily life.
“Over the last several months, I have engaged with the livery cab driver community to learn of its reality, document it and create an engaging portrayal that is both attentive and serious.”, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin says.
“The final outcome of my investigation is a rich installation that attempts to capture the hardship and diversity of the trade. And the encompassing device of the installation is the live radio feed from cab livery dispatches surrounding the gallery. By incorporating the live radio dispatch, I transform the gallery visitor from art viewer to voyeur, listening in on the orders being transmitted all around us.
Radio transmissions that direct one human being to drive a vehicle to a specific site, pick up a passenger, and drive to a new destination.
It happens at all hours of each day; it is a common reality of the urban space and absolutely nothing exceptional. And yet it is fascinating to take a moment, listen and consider the wide implications of these transmissions.
By having people listen, I try to effectively dislocate peoples consciousness into a private space – that radio spaces employed between dispatch and drivers – transmissions that are only privy to when in a cab and even then hardly take note of.
But when these transmissions are re-contextualized within the gallery walls, when we are invited to listen, not as passengers eager to arrive at our destination, but rather as art viewers expecting to engage with creative work, the transmissions gain new depths.”
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