August, 2007

Dash Snow and Dan Colen

During the preparation of “Nest,” a new exhibition on view at the Deitch Projects‘ 76 Grand Street gallery, artists Dash Snow and Dan Colen invited 30 volunteers to spend three days shredding 2,000 New York City telephone books in a grimy and most unusual installation. The group spent midnight to 8 a.m. each night wading in waist-deep shredded paper, creatively destroying everything in their process[…..]