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| "Traffic Report" looks at the "creative destruction" of the city of St. Louis in light of the federally funded US urban renewal program of the 1960s. A sequence of slide- photographs showing the former neighborhood of Mill Creek Valley, in downtown St. Louis, are projected onto a "floating" screen in the exhibition space. The photographs were made from the inside of an automobile that was being built on the assembly line as Millcreek Valley, a mostly African American neighborhood, was being torn down to accommodate the construction of the Daniel Boone Expressway. An audio track plays back a reconstructed news report linking Mill Creek Valley to the longer history of clearing and rebuilding in St. Louis that extends back to its time as a French colony. |
