Deployed in New York City neighborhoods since 2006, the New York Police Department\u2019s SkyWatch towers have traditionally been used as a police tactic to curb criminal activity through aerial video surveillance. Looming over the park\u2019s grounds, Zaq Landsberg\u2019s SkyWatch Spider is a replica of an NYPD\u2019s SkyWatch tower, made more ominous by a new feature: eight arachnid legs.<\/p>\n
By elevating the conversation surrounding surveillance and policing to a grotesque extreme, Landsberg\u2019s spider provokes its viewers to question the relationship between power, privacy, and public safety. SkyWatch Spider emphasizes the absurdity of these structures, which New Yorkers have accepted, perhaps reluctantly, as fixtures in their streets and neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
SkyWatch Spider creates a situation in which viewers must confront both the work itself \u2014 with its elements of the absurd \u2014 as well as its literal footing in reality.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4338,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"exhibition-theme":[],"class_list":["post-4337","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition-theme?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}