Thank you Lewis and thank you for having me here to speak on behalf of the High Line project in New York City. I’m going to go through a number of images that help you understand how the High Line was created and how art is involved in the creation of the High Line and the enjoyment of the High Line. The High Line was built in the 1930’s as part of a massive public private infrastructure project called the West Side improvement. These are some historical images of what High Line looked like when it was first constructed. It lifted freight traffic thirty feet in the air removing dangerous trains from the streets from Manhattan’s largest industrial district. But no trains have run on the highline since 1980 so it remained abandoned. Here are other views it ran for more than two miles over the streets over the lower west side of Manhattan and as you can see over the streets over the sidewalks through buildings around buildings. Friends of the High Line, a community based nonprofit group, was formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. And you can see in the 80’s how the structure was starting to deteriorate and the city was planning to remove it. But the community in lower Manhattan knew there was potential in reusing this elevated rail area. And the friends of the High Line worked in partnership with the city of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park. And I was fortunate myself to be able to visit the high line in New York. There is me wandering on the top of the High Line. No tracks are visible. But walk ways and benches and plantings, it’s now a two mile long linear park. That is now enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people with unique retrofitting of plants and walk ways where there was once tracks and artists have started to participate in the creation of experience along the high line as well functional elements like this artist design birdhouses. The high line has its own art program presented by Friends of the High Line. They commission works, they produce public art projects on and around the High Line. Started in 2009 the High Line Art presents a wide array of art work including cite specific commissions, exhibitions, performances, video programs, and a series of billboard interventions. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, curator and director of High Line Art and produced by Friends of the High Line, High Line Arts invites artists to think of creative ways to engage with the uniqueness of the architecture history and design of the High Line and to foster productive dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood and urban landscape. The art program includes several components, there’s the billboards, the channel which includes video projects, art performances, and commissions. So for each of these sections, billboards, these are examples of some of the projects that have happened in the last few years. This is john JohnBaldessari, First One Hundred Thousand DollarsI Ever Made, is the title of his billboard project. And collier, developing tray number two. David Shrigley, How are You Feeling, and here’s a detail of that billboard. Maurizio Cattelan, and Pierpaolo, and their billboard, Toilet Paper. These are all different examples of ways artists have used these same billboard spaces that are adjacent to the High Line but also serve audiences on the street and driving around lower Manhattan. As you can see these are not advertisements, but works of fine art created specifically for this site. High Line Channel features video projects on walls adjacent to the high line. So here’s an example, Gordon Matta-Clark, City Slivers, from 1976, so these aren’t necessarily new works created, but rather archival works that can be projected for exhibits and programing. And this gives you a sense of what the experience is like seeing videos, in this case Andy Warhol’sEmpire State, a I believe 16 hour film that’s simply one view of the empire state building. Or john cage, one 11 and one o 3. So variety of spaces are explored for projection for animations as well as for these art performances. This is Alison Knowles makes a salad, with audience participation and community members making the worlds largest salad. And from above mixing the vegetables and then tossing them with the dressing intoa tarp so that they can be raked and mixed and then served to all the guests.Or performance events involving poetry and opera. And dance performances. There are certain spaces that are covered so even if it’s raining there can be performance activities. Artists exploring the different physical features of the high line inspire different kinds of choreography or performing events such as Jennifer West’s one mile parkour film in which a film is laid out on the high line for a distance of one mile. And through a variety of interactions with school children and audience members the film becomes another kind of art form. There’s some wonderful areas that are created as part of the high line that allow for seating and performances and viewing of the streetscape below which is another very interesting aspect of this elevated, linear park that you can watch the traffic and pedestrians below almost as a performance event in itself watching the city be animated below you. And some of the commissioned works these are temporary projects that have been commissioned by the high line for various sites along the corridor. These are some of the artists who have presented last year. And some of the examples of their works. This series features small scale sculptures. You can see in this photo where they’ve left some of the tracks that used to serve the rail as part of the historical nature of this restoration project. Some of these works are hard to find or you discover by surprise as you journey up and down the high line. And they’re a variety of places to enter and exit from the high line using elevators as well as stairs. Sometimes you’re not sure if the works are commissioned or an artist simply decided to bring their artwork up to the High Line and display them on their own, and of course there are impromptu installations and performances happening because artists know that there’s always a crowd of people visiting the High Line. In this slide you can see how they’ve filled in with concrete where the tracks were to create walking areas, yet leaving the tracks and the history of the use of the site visible. One of the interesting things about the High Line that was not anticipated so much is the access that the audience has to the second floor windows of buildings along the park. Where there was once private bedrooms in hotel rooms there’s now a concern over the privacy of people living along the high line. An interesting social phenomena. Some people are welcoming the attention, and others are keeping their shades closed. This is an interesting installation. A pickup truck where normally all the cars are parked. This one filled with bricks that reference the industrial past. And a large scale wall relief on a building adjacent to the high line makes visitors curious what is the building originally and what is the art work. So just to conclude these are some of the projects planned for this coming year so these are not actual photographs of the work but rather proposals and examples of artists who are coming this year to present commission works at the high line under the theme busted. You get a sense from these images and all the works I’ve shown the diversity and range of public art activities that have taken advantage of this new public space in New York which has become extremely popular almost to the point where they are concerned with too many people, it being too crowded. As you can see residents of nearby buildings use this park for sunbathing as well. And here is the website for those of you interested in exploring the High Line on your own, and I certainly encourage you if you visit New York City please visit the High Line. Thank you.