||—> Zinc.

||—> An air-tight container, water, bandages, gauze.

||—> Examination gloves.

||—> Aspirin, alcohol, duct tape.

||—> String.

||—> Also: saline solution, water proof ammo case, hemostatic clamp, slingshot

||—> pouch, thermometer, Ibuprofin, Malox, Benadryl, Pseudophedrin,

||—> chloropheniramine, Triamcenolone, Dymenhydrinate, Immodium, oral re-

||—> hydration salts, spare-air emergency breathing apparatus, parachute cord,

||—> Blistex, sunglasses, manual reverse-osmosis desalinator pump, coagulant,

||—> Kevlar vest…

—Excerpts from Maximillian Goldfarb, Incident Reports

Hello Empyre community,

I'd like to introduce a current project of Incident Report, which is a small presentation space in Hudson, NY, currently inhabiting the storefront of the Flow Chart Foundation. For more than a decade, Incident Report has made non-commercial use of a storefront display window to offer an interface between artists and the many publics of the street.

IR’s current project, Reports, presents a series of text pieces by a wide range of artists on an LED sign, viewed by passersby on the street. Texts move between poetry, notation, transcription, weather reports, dispatches, public address, inventories, event scores, recipes, news, elegies, missives, codes, prayers, instructions, lyrics and more. Words and sentences unfold like a chyron running various forms of commentary, feedback, reflection, announcement.

Each work is displayed on a loop for an irregular amount of time relevant to each text, with a minimum of one day. The shifting, often short duration of each piece is based on the objective that this project maintains a live, responsive relationship to the unpredictable, constantly changing and moving audience in any number of ways: relating to the word, the street, the State, the news cycle, the cosmos, -pertaining to any and all 'species of spaces'.

Through this project we explore what kinds of shared understanding can be established, or challenged, through this sign that connects the many publics of the street to artists reporting on conditions from their studios and homes. How is a network woven across spaces, publics and individuals using language constrained to this minimal format? How relevant and powerful can the word be, out there on its own, in an age of noisy, meaningless communication?

Check out the exhibition page https://www.allocations.online/reports.html to see documentation of the project.

Sincerely,

Maximilian