TV in the Woods

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pop up exhibition in an abandoned lot on Emerald Street, in East Kensington, Philadelphia in August 2014

Description of the installation: This was an installation I created in the late summer of 2014, with the help of a few friends (Willow Zef, Andrew Galati, Scott Bickmore, Rachel Mueller, Megan Whalen, Courtney Blue, Eric Clark, Eileen Lillian Doyle, and a few more). The installation involved me disassembling the contents of my living room at The Dream Oven and reassembling it out in an abandoned lot beside the house. This was all done a week before my fateful move from that house on Emerald Street in Philadelphia, and I think it was one of my more successful TV Installations, though definitely only witnessed by a very intimate audience.

photo by Willow Zef

A critical review by Willow Zef, borderlinefictions.com:

“Last night marshall moved his living room into an abandoned lot creating a psychedelic city fire. galleria ex-terra. kind of like a march hare & mad hatter’s tea party. with bowls and beers and a tv stack simmering embers of static & ash. the police rolled by (twice) with curiosity. they left feeling 

stunned saying “oh shit christ.” neighbors and friends joined the soirée giving their compliments. strangers stopped to have a look. and a crackhead came thru whoring herself for a quick few minutes of smack. she left when she got a cigarette. stretching and gnawing her jaw though. made her look like a skull bone. so many worlds colliding, intensifying. a hodgepodge of humans in a powwow. a modern day hooverville, obamatown. artists and bums experiencing the shit & grit of kensington. having a good ol’ time transcending the norm via art. making ash of the veil revealing what’s realer than real. i think i heard ginsberg snapping.“