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- Tree with Moons
Authors: Cullen; Catherine
Abstract: The sculpture began with wanting to process grief. One of my brothers passed away in his sleep (unrelated to Covid) in 2020 after pandemic travel restrictions made it impossible to gather for a funeral. Over the course of my making, which is process-based – an intuitive approach to materials and methods – the form evolved into a tree with three moons. The tree is a cross-cultural symbol of loss and renewal. Each month we can observe, too, the moon appearing and disappearing from view, a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of existence.The mind struggles to accept the notion of death as inevitable, coming to all. The Vietnamese Zen monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, has written that when we are alive, we are part of the sky, the earth, the clouds. When we pass, we continue to be part of everything. I look up into the trees and the sky and know the spirit of my mother, my father, and my brother continue. Poetry has always been an informing influence in my studio production. In...
PubDate: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- ">New York City Story
Authors: Tobocman; Seth
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Wyndham, Tamara "Tornado"
Abstract: This comic strip is my response to hearing that mayor Eric Adams has called for an 6% rent increase for New York Cities’ rent stabilized tenants. The rent stabilization laws protect a large number of NYC tenants by limiting the size of rent increases a landlord can charge on the renewal of a lease. In recent years those increases were about 1% or 2%, but the new mayor has proposed 6%, a significant escalation.Many justifications have been advanced for this increase. The rising cost of gas. The fact that the previous administration kept rent increases to a minimum. The two-year moratorium on evictions during COVID. I felt that the only way to explain how devastating this reversal in policy was going to be, was to present the overall trajectory of the housing situation in NYC, not over years, but decades.When I came to NYC in the 1970s it was pretty easy to find an affordable place to live, even if you were poor. It was a city where someone could start at the bottom...
PubDate: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Identities of Self and Place in Sunset Park: The Unmaking of the Gowanus
Expressway
Authors: Ha; Yen
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Phillips, Lauren
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Clifton, Andrew
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Cook, Anna
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Fritz, Anna
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LaBarbera, Jessica
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McGlone, Kim
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Talbi, Henry
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Xiong, Rita
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Yu, Kelly
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Zhang, Amy
Abstract: This project explores the intersecting qualities of place, time, and identity through the work of a graduate design studio at Rice School of Architecture. “Identities of Self and Place in Sunset Park: The Unmaking of the Gowanus Expressway,” challenges students to activate a residual urban space through a broad reading of its surrounding cultural, physical, and programmatic site conditions. The project site, located beneath the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, is a typical example of how transportation infrastructure of the past bifurcated communities and sent neighborhoods into decline. Architecture designed through the lens of Place, Time, and People can produce responsive spaces that address historical injustices while allowing for multiple readings and experiences.Students began their research with a design methodology based in both direct and remote observation of the project site. They examined the local conditions and expanded into the surrounding...
PubDate: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Outdoor Dining and the Transformation of Public Space in New York City
Authors: Saphan; LinDa
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Pipitone, Jennifer M.
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Perez-Garcia, Emily
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Vieira, Angelique
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Francisco, Rossalba
Abstract: New York City’s streetscapes have undergone a dramatic transformation as a result of the city’s Open Restaurants program. Established in June of 2020 to uplift the restaurant industry out of economic turmoil brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the program led to outdoor dining structures sprouting across the urban landscape. Due to its overall success, the city is currently preparing to launch a permanent program, which has led to conflicts between some of the city’s stakeholders as the space used for outdoor dining overlaps with public spaces such as sidewalks and streets. Drawing from urban planning and environmental psychology students’ research projects, this paper explores the ways in which outdoor dining has transformed public space in New York City using Lefebvre’s spatial theory as a guide. Over the course of a semester, students analyzed city blocks in the Bronx and Manhattan using multiple methods including historical analysis of block changes and field observations....
PubDate: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- A Daily Practice in Memories of a Lived Experience: Bridging Pune and New
York City
Authors: Atmakur-Javdekar; Sruthi
Abstract: What happens when the present (perceived or real space) is ‘conceived’ (as artwork) from memories of a lived experience'According to Lefebvre, ‘representational space’ is space as directly (or lived) experienced by users through “associated images and symbols” (p. 39); one that is passively experienced or felt – “a space which the imagination seeks to change and appropriate” (1974/1991, p. 39).Like New York City and perhaps other cities in urban India, Pune has been experiencing rapid transformation where the urban landscape is dotted with high-rise developments in residential, industrial, institutional and commercial sectors. However, Pune has a unique urban landscape given its geographical locational advantage of being nestled in the rich and biologically diverse Sahyadri mountain range or the Western Ghats. As a result, the city boasts of small hills that are marked by urban planners, technocrats, and those in power as bio-diverse areas - spaces where no urban...
PubDate: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Introduction: New York City in Transformation
Authors: Saphan; LinDa
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Pipitone, Jennifer M.
Abstract: The editors of Streetnotes 29: New York City in Transformation provide an introduction to the issue and its content.
PubDate: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Playing Chess in Public: Recreational Traditions in a Time of Crisis
Authors: Korsant; Clate Joseph
Abstract: Based upon a series of ethnographic vignettes, interviews, participant observation, and archival research, this article profiles public chess playing in Greenwich Village, New York City. I focus upon the famed public spaces for chess players like Washington Square Park and Union Square, and the atmosphere of anxiety and unrest due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and systemic racism surrounding the protests of the summer of 2020. The long artistic and revolutionary history of Greenwich Village provides an intriguing context for public chess playing and the informal economy of hustling. As the majority of the chess enthusiasts and table hosts are African American men and, given the metaphoric explanations of “chess as life,” sociopolitical context is critical. In particular, political artistic displays and protests against police violence and systemic racism are no mere backdrop for chess playing, but intimately felt and entangled within the sense of place and...
PubDate: Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +000
- The Guerrilla Gallery: A Rapid Ethnography about a Collaborative Public
Art Installation in East Harlem
Authors: Otero Peña; Javier Eduardo
Abstract: In the heart of East Harlem, New York City, a collective of artists called the Harlem Art Collective created the “Guerrilla Gallery”: A collaborative public art installation on a construction fence, to give residents a place to express themselves through art and messages. While East Harlem is characterized by murals depicting Puerto Rican flags and political causes, these symbols were absent in the Guerrilla Gallery, which instead exhibited predominantly Mexican cultural and political symbols. Was a territorial contestation taking place through art, a sort of identity negotiation to determine who “belongs” in the neighborhood' (Zukin, 1995) This article presents an ethnographic and photographic narrative of the Guerrilla Gallery and what it means to the people who live in the neighborhood. Using rapid ethnographic assessment procedures (Low et al., 2005), coupled with photographic cartography (Ulmer, 2017), this study presents the findings of interviews and the Guerrilla Gallery....
PubDate: Sun, 1 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Front Matter and Table of Contents
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Abstract: Front Matter and Table of Contents
PubDate: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Buzzing Calligraffiti
Authors: Popov; Milena - Nena
Abstract: This series of artworks explore the human perceptions of space, presence, belonging, communication, movement, resilience, and regrowth during the ongoing pandemic in New York City. In a dynamic spatial ontology, past-present-future palimpsests exist as our spatiotemporal perception of reality. Current pandemic trapped humans (including myself) in situ, and, in a way, recontextualized human social spatiability and psychogeographic perception of space, adding layers of introspection. During lockdowns, as the only means to communicate with other people was via digital technologies, entire life (work, school, religious service, exercising, entertainment, socializing, dating, etc.) moved online. This new spatiotemporal reality emerged as a form of resilience and solidarity in the time of crisis. New York City, the city that never sleeps, started to buzz again. In a dance between the real and the imaginary, the transient and the permanent, on and off screen, the virtual and the real,...
PubDate: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Being-with-ears: How Christian Benning Opened my Ears to the Soundscapes
of New York City and Beyond
Authors: Imamichi; Tomoaki D.
Abstract: This writing explores the phenomenology of everyday urban sounds, some generic, others more place specific sounds to New York, or particular places within New York with samplings from Manhattan, the Queensboro Bridge and Queens. It takes the perspective of a walker and Environmental Psychologist, a commuter on the way to work. The experience was inspired and made possible by a recital by multi-percussionist Christian Benning that introduced listeners to different sounds and music. In this writing “New York City in transformation” refers to the transformation of sounds via the experience of walking, and the transformation experienced through a newfound aesthetic and meaning to sounds as my ears had been opened: everyday sounds that previously escaped my attention, sounds that I have taken for granted, or considered as a nuisance, have transformed from noise to sound (from Krach to Klang). Being-with-ears can be a way of being more present...
PubDate: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +000
- Swimming Sounds
Authors: Novelli; Jo
Abstract: City sounds are scarce these days in Johnstown, PA. The population of this once-thriving rust belt town has shrunk to fewer than 20K people and is now focused on outdoor recreation and the arts. The YMCA pool is one place where, even in COVID times, the community gathers in the name of wellness.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Listening Point – Daily Soundscape Recordings from a Window of an
Apartment in a Building Located on a Street in a Residential and
Commercial Neighborhood in the City of Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro
Authors: Quaresma; Marco Cardoso
Abstract: A month-long (February-March 2021) log of sounds and sound sources in Rio de Janeiro.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Loud: Death by Garbage Truck
Authors: Thompson; MJ
Abstract: A writer speculates on waste sounds in the city.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Like Birds in A Cage: Accounts About Social Isolation Soundscapes During
the Pandemic in Brazil
Authors: Vianna; Graziela Mello
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Furtado, Lucianna
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Lima, Ricardo de Freitas
Abstract: This article presents and reflects upon the transformations on the soundscapes of Belo Horizonte (capital of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil) and the surrounding countryside areas, noticed during the current social isolation period due to the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The starting point is a discussion about the concepts of landscape and soundscape, upon which our work is grounded, as theorized by scholars in the fields of geography, art, and sound studies; and also, the notion of proxemic zone, which guides our understanding of the relation between the listener and their space. The article then moves on to the authors’ own experiences during these pandemic days. One has stayed put, remaining in the center of a city with a population of 2.5 million people and taking notes of the different pandemic phases through the changing soundscape. Another has left her apartment in a bohemian part of town to stay at her countryside home, replacing the musical...
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- a woman, alone
Authors: Dent; Michelle
Abstract: This essay, a metafictional account, arose from the grief and trauma of losing my mother in March of 2019, one year prior to the 2020 Pandemic shutdown. One of the formal challenges was in exploring how best to represent the soundscape of city and household she might have heard in her final hours. At the same time, it also imagines her interior soundscape, the moment of death and the transition to the afterlife she had hoped for. The essay was conceptualized as one of several "islands" in an archipelago of essays as you see them here. Each island, each essay, is rendered all the more interesting (we hope!) in the way they are situated in this intimate yet quarantined zoom community of long standing friendships and shared intellectual vision.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Routine
Authors: Rodrigues; Dan
Abstract: A daily sound report.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- When the Fugitives Decide to Stay
Authors: Bromley; Bruce
Abstract: "When the Fugitives Decide to Stay" looks at how language use, for many of us, marks value and non-value, and this marking becomes especially troubling under pandemic conditions. The essay juxtaposes bodily valuation and non-valuation during the AIDS epidemic and during our ongoing COVID moment, arguing that we need to expand our abilities to critique human desire and its operations.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- All Sounds Are from My Home: Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro
Authors: Alves; Ilana Marina
Abstract: A journal, in which I keep track of sounds around me, on an hourly basis, for about a month.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- While Taking My Dog for A Walk – A Sound Diary
Authors: da Luz; Daniel Ramalho Grande
Abstract: A two-month long sound diary.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- From Confinement to Sound Encapsulation: The Social References of Sound in
Morro do Palácio, Niterói (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Authors: Stevenson-Déchelette; Ismaël
Abstract: Lessons on soundscapes, music, and noises from the Morro do Palácio favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Stories in Black
Authors: Anderson; Keisha-Gaye
Abstract: Three poems about anti-Blackness and state violence.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- A Day in Quarantine
Authors: Nix; Michael David Brasil
Abstract: A day, March 8, 2021, in sounds.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Dodging Partitions
Authors: Durst; Khaly
Abstract: This a visual investigation into partitions, which separate space and sound.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Innings
Authors: Youngs; Timothy
Abstract: The first versions of this poem about sound on paper were drafted while I was writing a chapter on sounds in travel literature. On 7 May 2018 my concentration broken by human and mechanical noises from outside, I tuned in to the commentary on a cricket match at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge (a ground less than 2 miles from the city centre), and listened to the applause as the South African batsman Hashim Amla, playing for Hampshire, reached his century. As I would have been there had it not been for the chapter deadline, the poem became a reflection on the paradox of sound being both present and absent in texts. During the Covid-19 pandemic I redrafted the poem several times, more intensely aware of the differences between inside and outside, between urban and natural sounds, and of the places where they meet.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- The Sound Seasons
Authors: Momchedjikova; Blagovesta
Abstract: These pieces explore the seasons of sound in a city caught in the global pandemic.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Lockdowns
Authors: Brazzale; Claudia
Abstract: A short response to the sounds of lockdowns during a session of a Zoom Writing Salon initiated by Michelle Dent which involved eight former colleagues from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Dreams Are What Music Is Made Of…
Authors: Rodriguez; Jay
Abstract: A rumination on dreams and music, in dedication to my Mom, Dad, and all our ancestors past and present. And to all that have been called home during this dramatic exodus in the vastness of space.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Introduction: Sounds and Silence in the Pandemic City
Authors: La Barre; Jorge de
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Momchedjikova, Blagovesta
Abstract: Introduction to the Streetnotes 28: Sounds and Silence in the Pandemic City
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Silenced No More
Authors: Santos; Rafaela
Abstract: Several artworks from a larger project created in 2020, during the times of the pandemic and unrest, when people of color decided that they would be silenced no more.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- BQE
Authors: Shapiro; BJay
Abstract: The poem is about a snow drop hitting my window while driving under a bridge. The shape made me remember older boys with daisy bb guns shooting at parked trains near what is now the Highline. Then a kid with a snowball slams my windshield while I was deep in memory. I jumped back quickly into a sound reality.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Lockdown, Soundscapes, Dreams: A Diary (July 25, 2020 – August 8,
2021)
Authors: La Barre; Jorge de
Abstract: These selected entries are from a diary that I have been keeping since the beginning of the pandemic; they document the ways in which sounds have occupied my dreams, and my reflections about a new, perhaps quieter, perhaps sinister, soundscape experience.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Rest in Power Portraits: Reverberations
Authors: Molloy; Traci
Abstract: A close description of a 2020 summer public art project in support of Black Lives Matter, at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Louder
Authors: Alley; Jason
Abstract: A series of musings on listening to the city amidst pandemic motivated retreats and diminished soundscapes. It latches onto some possible lines of flight—courtesy of the author’s own experiences and others’ art.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Music, Pandemic, and Creative Idleness!
Authors: Garnizé; Alexandre
Abstract: Musings on creative idleness.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Soccer Sounds, from Ingá (a middle-class neighborhood in
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro)
Authors: Góes; Gabriel
Abstract: A sound journal, taking into account public celebrations during the pandemic.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Sonorities and Cities (in Times of Crisis)
Authors: Mendonça; Luciana Ferreira Moura
Abstract: The aim of this article is to explore some possibilities of hearing the city as a tool for an extended exploration and understanding of different aspects of urban dynamics and contradictions in socio-anthropological analysis. Starting from considerations of the secondary importance given to the sense of hearing in social research and theory, and the growing interest in the integration of all the senses for the construction of an embodied research apparatus which would contemplate the multidimensionality of everyday life, I explore two perspectives: the one contained in the different uses of the concept of soundscape, and the one referred to more recent appropriations of Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis. Complementing the reflection, I use the theoretical suggestions based on sound perceptions, to produce some insights regarding the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on cities and everyday life.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Listening Log #1 – Distribution
Authors: Silveira; Diego da Silva
Abstract: The soundscape of a single day, February 21, 2021.
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
- Mixed Speak
Authors: Cisse Toni; Moussa
Abstract: This short piece addresses the challenges of being biracial and finding your own voice while listening to the conflicting voices of others: parents, grandparents, friends, mentors, teachers, coaches. I had two constraints while writing this: one, I had to emulate Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl,” where a mother teaches her daughter how to be a respectable girl and not “the slut you are so bent on becoming”; and two, I had to develop this for a high school literature assignment while studying remotely during New York’s pandemic lockdown. I had no “in-person” communication other than with my immediate family, which made it even harder to find one’s own voice: you need the voices of others in order to distinguish yours from theirs. I wondered: what is sound--music' vibrations' noise' everyday sounds' silence' Will silence always protect you'
PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
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