Park Pause
Park Pause connects residents to infrastructure with viewpoints of select public parks.
We foreground the places where memories form, are shaped into monuments, and re-enacted through events. In the USA, people in power decide the sites of a public park, what monuments are situated there, and what events take place. We can take that power and use it to cultivate true common places that compel casual appreciation, direct engagement, and cooperative ownership.
Park Pause is an open, cyber-physical participatory project.
Zachary Schulte
Zachary Schulte is a cyber-physical performer, researcher, and artist based in Houston.
For this residency, they have selected the four smallest parks operated by the city of Houston. They will practice a Park Pause at each site: reading the landscape, documenting the place, dreaming about it, then creating artwork about each park.