Press
September17
FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNTS FOUND MORE BELIEVABLE THAN ‘TRUTHINESS’
Questions abound about New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood; Eyebeam’s Storywalk project performs community séance– unbelievable stories emerge.
September 22, 2008, New York. When politicians do it, it’s called spin, when a team of artists and students do it, it’s called Storywalk, a trip down a fictional memory lane. Experimental storytelling is at its best in this memorable collaborative piece which melds together overheard narrative, provocative video, on-the-ground still photography and imagined dialogue, producing an interactive map which takes audience participants along for the ride.
Storywalk performs community seance; ghosts of Lower East Side emerge
October 10, 2008, New York. When politicians do it, it’s called spin; when a team of artists and students do it, it’s called Storywalk, a trip down a fictional memorylane*. Experimental storytelling is at its best in this memorable, collaborative piece which melds together overhead snatches of conversation, guerilla video, on-the-ground photography and imagined dialogues to produce an interactive mapped tour, leading audiences through the passage of past, present and possible futures on the streets of New York.
At 6:00 pm on October 23, 2008, Eyebeam, an art and technology center located in Chelsea, invites an audience to experience Storywalk and the Lower East Side along with a talk by special guest Art Historian John Maciuika from Baruch College/CUNY. The project is based on the belief that stories fill the air, offering a widening of the horizons of what is thought and believed, if only a moment is taken to stop, and listen.
*Note: Unlike politicians and mainstream media outlets, Storywalk admits to the presence and, occasionally, prevalence, of fabrication.
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