Crossing Non-signalized Locationspublic intervention
Commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council, this project explores what Peltz refers to as the latent poetics of the Cambridge Parking and Transportation Code. It began from an engagement with the co-habitation of the offices of the Arts Council and the Parking and Transportation Division, who share a building in central Cambridge. Peltz proposed the creation of an official artist-in-residence position within the Parking and Transportation Department and stipulated that all the works he produced would take the form of parking regulations and be passed officially through the local government prior to implementation. The support of the commissioner of the Department of Traffic and Transportation and her staff allowed this to happen. He began work on a series of parking regulations, that appropriated the language and forms of parking control, signage and enforcement, reflecting on the structure and contents of encounters between the public and those charged with enforcing this particular form of state authority/public choreography. The new regulations were officially implemented by the city, at the approval of the City Manager, from September-November 2010.