We first learned of Anna Schuleit’s work when she was on the Charlie Rose show with George Saunders last year as one of the MacArthur Genius Grant recipients. For her installations Habeas Corpus and Bloom, she brought Bach to an abandoned mental institution in Northampton, MA and bedecked the Massachusetts Mental Health Centre in Boston with flowers. Seems she now has similar psychogeographical plans for Detroit.

“I came up with an idea for the city of Detroit, which lies in ruins. It would involve everyone, and the entire city would be used as a site. It’s a natural extension of all the projects, of all my work, on a huge scale. It’s so simple and incredibly labor intensive. Maybe this could be an imaginary project, one that never gets done. It could be a book. Except it’s more fun if you actually do it. You risk your neck, all your assets and your energies, and all the years of your life—and you do it.”

http://www.nmhschool.org/magazine/2007_fall/young_artist.php

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/1/18/1/a-conversation-with-four-of-the-2006-macarthur-fellows

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/11/3/1/charlie-rose-tomorrow—anna-schuleit

www.anna-schuleit.com