Street Action: Moving Truck

I absolutely love action art! The Americas Society is exhibiting this work by Dias & Riedweg on Tuesday as part of an ongoing series of multi-faceted art projects that "examine the dichotomy between the private and the public spheres in different contexts. Dias & Riedwegs's practice tackles social political issues through a poetic fusion of video, ethnography, and performance art, opening up new lines of thought about human interaction and identity across borders."

A Uhaul truck parked on Fifth Avenue during the Museum Mile Festival will be used by Dias & Riedweg to set up a live Skype connection between Spanish Harlem and the Rio de Janeiro favela of Dona Marta/Botafogo. Interspersed with the Skype transmission will be images taken from Dias and Riedweg's previous presentations of the Moving Truck in New York City (Americas Society) and Brussels (Kunstenfestival des Arts in Brussels).

Moving Truck is an ongoing and multilayered public art project by Dias & Riedweg comprising a series of video projections that are screened in a truck. As conceived by the artists, the public's spontaneous reactions to and interactions with the truck become an integral part of the work itself. Moving Truck is a multifaceted project occurring in several platforms, each of which contributes to the cumulative life of the piece.