Starting in the late 1990's, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council got space in one of the Trade Center's towers to provide studio space for artists. In return, the artists would showcase their works throughout the buildings, perform concer…
Starting in the late 1990's, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council got space in one of the Trade Center's towers to provide studio space for artists. In return, the artists would showcase their works throughout the buildings, perform concerts during lunchtime, and even have free dance routines in the Plaza. = https://lmcc.net/about/history/
In early 2000, a group of 4 Austrian artists, Gelitin , were in this studio space and erected a "club house" skinned with cardboard boxes. Inside this now secluded space, they created a one person "balcony", and on a Sunday morning in March 2000, removed a window, slid the balcony out, and took a series of photos from a adjacent hotel and also a rented helicopter, then 19 minutes later, removed the balcony and replaced the window. They waited over a year (August, 2001) to release a book about the event, for fear that they would be deported if they told anyone.
It is purporting that the Austrians were Israeli's, and the cardboard box "skin" was actually boxes stacked floor to ceiling with accessories for "fuse holders" because a number stamped on the top of the box(in 1999-2000) almost corresponds to a current part number(if you add in a "-" that the company itself doesn't in their literature) for electrical 3-phase fuse holders. In addition, because they removed the ceiling tiles to secure their safety lines to water pipes/beams, the obvious conclusion is that they were planting "fuses" on the beams for some reason at floor 91 when the planes impacted at floors 93-98.
Marvin Bush's company Securicom did the security for a months long refurbishment job in the elevator shafts of both buildings. Residents reported truck loads of material being brought in , in the days before the attack. This may have been a way to bring in more personnel for the job. Side note they did the security for Los Alamos national laboratory which is where the Anthrax came from in those attacks during those same weeks.
So the question is, was this really an art project or just an excuse to scope the place out? The 91st and 92nd floors of the north tower were unoccupied and used for the LMCC art residency program.
World Trade Center’s Infamous 91st-Floor Israeli ‘Art Student’ Project
https://www.winterwatch.net/2017/09/world-trade-centers-infamous-91st-floor-israeli-art-student-project/
