Noir City
Installation view: paper maché furnishings, photograph of the city at night, IN/SITE92, San Diego, California
1992
Jason Tannen’s installation, Shadow Town, in an old church building downtown…establishes its emotional tenor through environmental means. In the most effective part of this work, Tannen has furnished a small room in the manner of a slightly seedy hotel room, complete with the soundtrack of telephones ringing endlessly, feet thumping up the stairs, as well as an occasional scream and siren.
––Leah Ollman, At the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1992, San Diego County edition, Entertainment section.