The Guggenheim has been working on a two-year multidisciplinary project that takes the museum’s Architecture and Urban Studies programming out into the streets of the city’s five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Every three to five months, “stillspots” are identified, created, or transformed by architects, artists, designers, composers, and philosophers into public tours, events, or installations. In conjunction to these site-specific commissions around the city, students from Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts are visualizing, reflecting, and responding to everyday issues of visual noise, anxiety, and stillness through interactive maps and videos. Together, these works weave an unexpected and cross-disciplinary web of tranquility throughout the city.
For Transhistoria, the third edition of stillspotting nyc, the architects at Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL) explore how one finds calm and inner peace in a bustling environment such as Jackson Heights. How do its residents, who often have roots elsewhere, achieve a sense of home and familiarity in a post-national living situation? And what urged them to leave their old households and countries in the first place?
In this edition various residents of Jackson Heights will recount stories of migration, displacement, and finding familiarity and identity in a new place. It takes place in various stillspots in the neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Queens over four weekends beginning the 14th of April until the 6th of May...I wish I could attend...please feel free to comment on the event if you so happened to be in the area.
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