"Is it performance art or simply squatting? Eight artists have been secretly living in a 750-square-foot studio apartment they fashioned within the Providence Place mall parking garage. Michael J. Townsend, the leader of the Tape Art collective, was recently arrested for trespassing on private property by a mall security guard. Townsend said that the pad — built from over two tons of construction materials lugged to the space by Tape Art members and, though lacking running water or heat, fully furnished — was both a refuge and a means of addressing the relation between community and commerce."
artist site & project description
providence journal news story on the project
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