Hidden City features a quote from Marianne Bernstein →

The post, “What it means to create,” examines the progress of the recent Occupy movements, something Marianne feels strongly tied to with the Playhouse project as it occupies a vacant lot on Broad Street. Each artist in the exhibition was challenged to similarly occupy vacant places for a short period of time, hoping to reactivate and re-imagine those spaces. In a blog post (link above) about what can be created in the political occupy movements, Marianne weighs in:

In contrast, according to photographer/curator Marianne Bernstein, whose work I profile in today’s Inquirer, the occupation impulse is similar to that very generative–and therefore pro-urban–act of reclaiming vacant land. She therefore believes positive things will come of the occupation–for the protesters themselves and the city. “A lot of people look at protestors as naïve,” she says, “but in the end there is so much power in the experience. There’s so much life there. And they have to invent something here, they have to invent.”