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Is this some kind of a joke? What about the environment? Cambridge's Freedom Well has first been proposed at Dimensions Variable, Site Fixed, an exhibit at the Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November of 2005. Nineteen international artists created proposals for projects with these parameters: "The dimensions for the proposed creation can be variable, ranging from inches to meters from two to four dimensions; but the site is fixed--Cambridge, home of the Cambridge Arts Council, known for its commissions of public work." - organizer Mary Sherman
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What is The Freedom Well? The Freedom Well is different from ordinary oil wells. Because drilling for oil is an urgent worldwide priority, a coalition of multinational oil companies* have come together to produce a Freedom Well that expresses our common yearning for democracy, while drilling oil. Painted in patriotic red,white and blue, each well will fly its host country's flag right next to a state-of-the-art cellphone transmitter. The Freedom Well Comes to Cambridge Press release* courtesy of In My Backyard CAMBRIDGE, Ma, November 3 - U.S. oil giant Unocal, in cooperation with SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic), has just completed a two-year search for new oil resources subject to neither the whims of the weather nor those of global politics. The consortium has announced that a small but significant deposit of high-grade crude has been found in the soil under Harvard Square. The news has caused oil futures to surge on speculation that there are larger deposits nearby. A proposed oil well in the Mass Ave quadrant of the square is anticipated to gain easy community acceptance through an aggressive marketing campaign spearheaded by In My Backyard , a grassroots citizens group whose mission is to increase awareness of "...every citizen's patriotic duty... to make small sacrifices in order to ensure a safe, sustainable oil supply for America and the world." *In case you are wondering, the press release describes a fictional situation, posed to provoke conversation about our global oil priorities and how they relate to our daily lives.
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Thanks to Dave Knudsen for all of his help on this project.