Documented artwork / walk-through translucent outdoor installation
Bamboo Cinema
Credit as documented: Teresita Fernández
Bamboo Cinema is Teresita Fernández’s walk-through installation presented in Madison Square Park during the 2001 Target Art in the Park exhibition. Transparent plastic poles form a circular maze, with staggered heights and diameters creating walls that reach eight feet. The poles are silkscreened in bright green and yellow vertical stripes rather than made from living bamboo. Their arrangement changes how visitors see the park and one another as they move through the concentric passages. Public Art Fund describes the shifting bands as a shutter-like device that breaks movement into a flickering sequence, connecting bodily movement with early cinematic effects. The exhibition ran from May 31 through September 30, 2001. Public Art Fund organized that season for City Parks Foundation with Target sponsorship; those roles are not interchangeable with ownership or a present-day commission offer.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2001
- Materials
- Plexiglas, silkscreened transparent plastic poles
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- Labyrinth walls up to eight feet high.
- Dimensions apply to
- Published height for the 2001 installation; overall diameter, quantity of poles and transport footprint not stated.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
May 31–September 30, 2001
Madison Square Park, New York City, New York
- Site
- Madison Square Park
- City
- New York City
- State / region
- NY
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
- Event
- Target Art in the Park, 2001
- Historical siting
- temporary
- Setting
- outdoor
- Start date
- 2001-05-31
- End date
- 2001-09-30
- Date meaning
- documented
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The temporary exhibition dates document the 2001 presentation; they do not establish the work’s current location, survival or availability.
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Sources
- www.publicartfund.org ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17