Installation

Democracy Works (from Social Spaces)

The concept of democracy has always intrigued me, therefore I created some polling stations with ballots:

• Choose an animal for extinction
• Choose a magazine to be banned
• Choose someone to die
• Choose a building to be destroyed

These democratic questions were intended to provoke thought about the environment, censorship, capitol punishment, and urban planning. I found it interesting that a minority of the 200-300 voters chose a provocative entertainer rather than a notorious murderer for execution. The only building that received no vote for destruction was Central Collegiate. Remarkably, City Council granted a demolition permit to that site and Central Collegiate was destroyed in the summer of 1994.
F.Wayne Tunison