Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Yeah, I remember this.

The program was called World Views, run by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and it placed working artists into office space inside Tower One that was sitting vacant while the Port Authority looked for permanent tenants.

Over the years, the program ran.

Well over 100 artists came through it.

I was an artist in residence at the World Trade Center in the summer and fall of 1999.

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council formed an agreement with the Port Authority to allow a certain number of spaces to be used by artists as long as spaces were not rented to other businesses.

I ended up in an office on the 91st floor that had been an executive of a Japanese investment bank.

It was right during the time of the Asian fiscal crisis, and this business, it seemed like, had just left in the middle of the night.

I'm Nadine Robinson.

I am a conceptual artist, and I recently completed a piece called Tower Hollerers.

It's a sound installation that was first realized at the World Trade Center residency program sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 1999.

Oh, do I.