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Jason Revok 

Conant-Minnesota Park
Detroit, MI
2023
“Tape Loop”





In Summer 2023, we worked with Detroit’s Library Street Collective and artist Jason Revok to bring his distinct “tape loop” style to the Conant- Minnesota Park. Painted on court by the Project Backboard team, the work is inspired by the work of avant-garde composer William Basinski, who in the 1980s set out to digitize easy listening tapes, but instead watched his cassettes break apart as they moved through the recording spool. Revok creates a similar effect through paint—imperfect concentric lines interrupted by diagonal composition—built up through the methodological use of a paint roller coiled in tape. As the roller spins on the surface of the canvas, the tape shifts, tears and falls off, building a series of works that vibrate with intensity.

Partners: Library Street Collective, Jason REVOK, City of Detroit, 5 Star Basketball, Project Backboard, Kindred Studio