Distributed Risk (documentation), 2015
steel, video monitors
162"H x 29.5"W (base) and 18.25"W (top) x 36"D (base) and 52.5"D (top)

Risk is a body of work that uses two moments of crisis for Citigroup - the engineering crisis at Citicorp Center in 1979 and the financial crisis of 2007 - as a platform for exploring the public and private representations of a company’s business and practices, the pervasive fallacy of perpetually positive financial returns, and the scale of influence that banks’ behaviors and philosophies occupy in our individual and collective lives using the images of two of the banks iconic buildings as a vehicle.
Distributed Risk is a sculptural video piece that transforms the facade of One Court Square into an ever-growing, unending building displayed across four concurrent video monitors and supported by a steel lattice structure that invokes the buildings structural skeleton and cantilevers the monitors at 5º.

I've posted images and video of the work in progress at distributedrisk.tumblr.com. You can also see images of work in progress and the final piece on Instagram.

Fabricated by Cody Hughes.

This project is made possible in part by Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.