Most environments carry multiple stories, the hard-to-detect ghosts of past uses. We rarely pause long enough, or know where to look, to notice these layers. Think: the seminary that outlasted the neighborhood built around it, the bustling library that used to be a women’s prison. How do physical traces of history shape how we read a place?
No spot in New York City represents the complex relationship between past and present like the High Line, that symbol of urban rehabilitation, branded gentrification, and post-industrial repair. Join us as we conjure the city's past through close attention to its present.
Text: Teju Cole’s Open City & Tiziana De Rogatis’ “The Metamorphosis of Time”
Date: Thursday, October 22 at 7pm
Location: The High Line with Miranda & Anha