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Elena Alexander’s poem, How the Lurking, evokes images of how catastrophe affects the mind, body, and earth. De-Fuse the Minefield of Anger by the Anti-Bias Squad uses governmental stencils to warn of the violence of guerilla or terrorist warfare, the danger of charged politics, and other physical and psychological aspects of conflict. Contribute a Memory by Eric Liftin offers an empty space, where passersby can make public a private experience by writing their own memories on the posters. Nebojsa Seric Shoba’s Remote Control, 2000 reduces complex schema such as war, religion, and happiness to commands on a remote control, taking to task the manipulation of our collective experience by the media. The four selected posters will be mounted for one week throughout New York City beginning February 11th, 2002. Time to Consider (February 4 – March 22, 2002) at the Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, 31 West 52nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, will be an anchor site for the poster initiative, featuring the four selected posters, a wide selection of poster proposals and free posters available to the public. Gallery admission is free of charge; exhibition hours are 9am – 6pm daily and photo ID is required for entry. Submissions from all disciplines will be made available for downloading, as PDF files, from www.timetoconsider.org. This website will provide information on a wider selection of poster submissions, the print campaign participants, the exhibition, and public distribution points. On March 13th, the WhY Women Poetry Series will host a reading of selected poetry submissions at the 14th Street Y. For more information, please contact Poets & Writers.
Nebojsa Seric Shoba
Elena Alexander
Anti Bias Squad
Eric Liftin
Time to Consider: The Arts Respond to 9.11 is a multi-faceted poster campaign that offers varied reflections on September 11 by artists, poets, designers and architects. Creative Time, Poets & Writers, the Van Alen Institute, and Worldstudio Foundation (visual, literary, architectural, and graphic arts organizations, respectively) collectively solicited nearly one hundred submissions from which four were selected for printing and posting around New York City. Posters will appear on media walls in all boroughs and will be freely distributed at a selection of public sites such as museums, libraries and community centers. Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery will host an exhibition, Time to Consider, from February 4 - March 22, 2002, which will be an anchor site for the poster campaign, featuring a wide selection of poster proposals.
As evidenced in the preponderance of impromptu memorials and flags after 9.11, Americans immediately sought a visual salve for the horrific events. This desire for visual identification seemed both an effort to negate the mental imprints of the destruction, witnessed repeatedly through media footage, and a search for an alternative to words in describing 9.11. Artists have an important role in society - to provide us with a different lens - which often speaks or reveals undisclosed truths. The poster campaign expresses, both explicitly and ambiguously, how 9.11 has spawned reflection, action and change in our walks to work, our worldviews and in ways that we have not yet identified.
Though now predominantly used for advertising, poster sniping is a practice with a history of grassroots activism. Its geographic scope and street visibility make poster sniping an ideal urban medium for Time to Consider: The Arts Respond to 9.11. In an effort to reflect the diversity of the City’s cultural community, the participating organizations approached artists, poets, architects and designers—some of whom directly probe political and social issues with their work—for poster content submissions. Submissions came from Sophie Cabot Black, Vija Celmins, Mel Chin, Leon Golub, Hans Haacke, Colette Inez, Hettie Jones, Rogers Marvel Architects, Gaetano Pesce, Frederic Schwartz Architects, and others. Of the submissions, works by poet, Elena Alexander; young activists, the Anti-Bias Squad; architect, Eric Liftin; and Croatian artist, Nebojsa Seric Shoba were selected for poster printing. 
February 4-March 22nd
Exhibition at the Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, 31 West 52nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
February 11-18th
The four selected posters will be mounted for one week throughout New York City.
Beginning February 11th
Posters will be available to take away for free at selected sites. Click here for locations.
March 13th
Reading: the WhY Women Poetry Series will host a reading of selected poetry submissions at the 14th Street Y. For more information, please contact Poets & Writers.
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