José Ruiz "Cash Sold Here"
Cuchifritos
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What is the meaning of an ATM? Located everywhere at a corner of a market or a store, and typically in close proximity to cashier(s), an ATM seems to provide us with a banking service convenient for us, consumers. It saves our time and energy, and it helps us avoid an awkward situation in which we run out of cash and have to ask for our friend’s generosity. Isn’t an ATM a wonderful machine that accommodates our daily life in many ways?
Subverting this luring surface of the EZ banking service, Jose Ruiz critically revisits the premises and function of an ATM. Upon finding that there is no ATM at the Essex Street Market, José Ruiz conceives the idea to install an artistic ATM in the middle of the Cuchifritos. This site-specific installation highlights the human touch and warmth that still survives intact at the Essex Street Market while discussing the elements of today’s faceless society such as commodified money, value, exchange, and machine/human interaction.
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Schedule
from May 10, 2008 to June 14, 2008
Opening Reception: May 10, 4-6 pm.