In the summer of 1972, Nancy Holt presented Crossed Locators at 10 Bleecker Street in New York, along with the audio work Visual Sound Zone: A Corner of 10 Bleecker Street. Developing from Holt’s studio experiments with Locators, Crossed Locators comprises four Locators arranged in two pairs across the room.  Looking inward, each Locator frames the Locator opposite it. Looking outward, the Locators frame four focal points: a circular mirror, a view through a window, a circular outline drawn in chalk on a wall, and a window covered with board or vinyl into which a circular aperture has been cut.

In 1972 10 Bleecker Street was a raw loft space near the Bowery in New York City, repurposed by Alanna Heiss as part of her curatorial project to transform unused urban architecture into experimental art venues. Crossed Locators was included in Recent Work, an exhibition which brought together a group of then-emerging artists (Power Boothe, Peter Downsbrough, Nancy Holt, Clark Murray, and Jim Reineking), each exploring form, perception, and spatial relationships through minimalist and post-minimalist vocabularies. Alanna Heiss noted in a phone call with the Foundation that during this exhibition “Nancy Holt taught me how to see.”

To date, this site-responsive Locator installation has not been presented posthumously. Its presentation would require a location with the same focal points as the 1972 installation.