Payphone Terminal
2020
Payphone Terminal
2020June 13th, day 21 of cleaning at 8:45am .
From May 24th to July 7th 2020, Killoran cleaned a payphone terminal located just around the corner from his apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. He maintained the terminal in a spotless condition through vigilant and relentless cleaning despite that these phones were scheduled for removal. The payphone was removed by the City of New York.
Payphone Terminal
2020May 24th, day 1 of cleaning at 11:56am.
The artist’s chosen payphone was no longer connected, the lights had long since gone out, and the structure was in general disrepair. Yet at the moment of Killoran’s performance, this type of public phone was still central to the urban landscape of New York City. At once ubiquitous but invisible to the passerby, these devices had acquired spectral and liminal qualities. Killoran’s cleaning was not a futile attempt to restore a bygone system but rather it sought to reflect on this transitional moment in the urban imagination of public property in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Payphone Terminal
2020
June 26th, day 34 of cleaning at 5:45pm.
Detail of the underside of one of teh phones. Before and after cleaning.
2020
June 26th, day 34 of cleaning at 5:45pm.
Detail of the underside of one of teh phones. Before and after cleaning.
Payphone Terminal
2020
The payphone terminal before cleaning began on May 24th, 11:50am
Before cleaning.
2020
The payphone terminal before cleaning began on May 24th, 11:50am
Before cleaning.
Payphone Terminal
2020
The payphone terminal after 28 days of cleaning on June 20th, at 4:58pm.
2020
The payphone terminal after 28 days of cleaning on June 20th, at 4:58pm.
Payphone Terminal
2020
Day 45, July 7th. At some point in the early hours of the day the City of New York removed the terminal.
2020
Day 45, July 7th. At some point in the early hours of the day the City of New York removed the terminal.
Payphone Terminal
2020
The final days of this obsolete technology was memorialized on social media. A document of this process can be viewed on ain inactive instagram account : payphoneterminal.
Addtional information can be found on the Studio 10 website.
2020
The final days of this obsolete technology was memorialized on social media. A document of this process can be viewed on ain inactive instagram account : payphoneterminal.
Addtional information can be found on the Studio 10 website.