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Lozano-Hemmers installation celebrating free speech runs into NYPD censorship

Lozano-Hemmers installation celebrating free speech runs into NYPD censorship


Rafael Lozano-Hemer is turning the Park Avenue tunnel in New York into a reverberating sound and light installation celebrating free speech. Visitors will find a silver intercom to speak into and their comments will pulse through the tunnel in waves of sound and light. However, the NYPD has voiced concerns about content and has asked the artist to install a time delay so comments can be regulated. Lozano-Hemmer has refused to play ball saying “This is the place for people to express their views…I've never in my life censored a work, and I won't do it.”
Image: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's voice tunnel, Park Avenue tunnel NYC, 3-18 August 2013