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Seth Wulsin (born April 15, 1981, in Spring Valley, NY) is an independent journalist Seth Wulsin, The Colombian Government’s War on Protesters, Jacobin, June 12, 2021. and contemporary artist working primarily with space, time and light through large-scale, site-specific, ephemeral sculpture, drawing and architectural performance.
Wulsin is best known for the work, 16 Tons, Prison Demolition,Caroline Winter, With a Hammer, Finding Ghosts in the Glass, The New York Times, August 5, 2007. a massive public piece in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that worked with the demolition of the infamous Caseros Prison between 2005 and 2009.
In 2010, Wulsin's work was thrown into the spotlight when a sculpture from his counter-surveillance oriented Time Drops in Decay series, consisting of higher-dimensional internally reflecting mirror objects, was broken by then-Mayor of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri (who later became president of Argentina) on a televised tour of the art fair ArteBA.Soledad Barruti, El zoo de Cristal, Pagina/12, October 3, 2010. Artist and filmmaker, Joshua Sandler, used the ensuing scandal as raw material for a documentary film called Who gives A Shit About Art? critiquing the intersection of art, politics and capital. El cristal con sue se mira, Clarín, May 16, 2011. Wulsin's work Wishing Well, an expansion on the Time Drops series, was exhibited at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011.Krystal Baugher, Shades of White, Boulder Weekly, July 7, 2011.
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