MOBILE ART SERIES HITS BOSTON’S STREETS

Mobile art series hits Boston’s streets

Housed in a rented U-Haul truck, White Walls Boston brings installations to art-starved pockets of the city

By Eric Magnuson. Web only

Published online: 02 July 2012

Twice a year, Boston’s streets are packed with trucks as students move on and off campuses in the university-filled town. Throughout this summer, however, some of those lorries are hauling much more interesting loads than budget furniture.

A 26-foot-long rented U-Haul truck is bringing local artists to Boston neighbourhoods that don’t normally have a visual arts scene. The White Walls Boston mobile art series launched on 30 June, featuring the work Phototrop by the local artists Jesse Kaminsky and Vela Phelan.

Throughout the night, and “after a brief technical battle”, according to the project’s Facebook page, Kaminsky and Phelan drove their installation piece to four different locations where they parked and opened the back door to let passersby step inside to view their work. The piece consists of a rear-projection video beamed through an installation of thousands of blue strings cutting across every angle of the lorry’s interior.

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