During the year 2002-2003, I collected images depicting mourners from the New York Times.
Eliciting the bodily gestures out of the news context and photograph, I reenacted them in a live situation without revealing their original context.
I tried to illuminate some of the relationships between a photograph, its mediation, and the idea of original content,
in this instance human emotional reaction to terrorism.
I perform the re-enactments in public spaces such as squares, parks, museums, and malls.
These public performances animate a relationship between personal emotions and public monuments.
The locations have varied and range from a window display at a New York gallery to
Foley Square in downtown Manhattan in front of the Freedom of Expression National Monument.

May Joseph writes on, among other, The New York Times Project in Beyond Biopolitics