Hole-in-Space

Hole-in-Space
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On a November evening in 1980 the unsuspecting public walking past the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, and "The Broadway" department store located in the open air shopping center in Century City (LA), had a surprising encounter with each other. Suddenly, live, head-to-toe, life-sized, images of the people on the opposite coast appeared.

Over three evenings, people could see, hear, and converse as if having a sidewalk encounter. No signs or sponsor logos were posted -- no explanation was offered. No intervening self-view video monitors to distract from the phenomena of the encounter with the life-size image. Self-view video monitors would have degraded these dynamic encounters into a self-conscience videoconference.

If you have ever seen what the award winning video documentation captured, then you would have laughed and cried at the amazing human drama and events that transpired over the evolution of the three evenings. Hole-In-Space suddenly severed the distance between both cities and created an outrageous new context for a pedestrian intersection. The first evening was about discovery; the second evening was populated by word-of-mouth and long distance telephone calls - that evening television news put the word out in both cities; the third evening was a mass televisual convergence of families members and trans-continental lovers, some family members had not seen each other in decades.

Text by Rabinowitz/Galloway