http://tombogaert.org/ art and international affairs en Copyright 2012, Tom Bogaert Sat, 19 May 2012 00:31:10 -0400 <p><img border="0" src="http://tombogaert.org/static/dyn-images/34/34544.jpeg" alt="Brooklyn, NY" height="500" width="500" /></p> <p class="caption"></p> <p class="work-data">ongoing</p> <p class="work-data"></p> <p class="work-data"></p> <p>The Piso Mojado series is a succession of performances in which Tom Bogaert mounts a yellow multi-lingual safety cone onto a mooring buoy. The buoy travels to varying bodies of water. As of yet, Bogaert installed Pisos Mojados in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Belgium, Miami, Palestine and Jordan.</p> <p>The Piso Mojado piece functions as an "open" work with no specific meaning imposed. This allows the interpretation of the work to change with it&#39;s content, which is fluid and changes with time, context and audience. For example, in Miami the buoy was interpreted as a comment on the `Wet Feet, Dry Feet Policy&#39;: a Cuban citizen, who is caught on the waters between Cuba and the United States (i.e.&#39;wet floor&#39;), would summarily be sent home or to a third country. One who makes it to shore (`dry floor&#39;) gets a chance to remain in the <span class="caps">US.</span></p> http://tombogaert.org/work/view/1549/9012