This artist rigged old New York City phone booths to tell powerful stories of immigrants
Walk into the graffiti-covered phone booth and pick up the phone — a person on the other end wants to tell you their story.
A new interactive art installation in New York City's Times Square is using old phone booths to share the stories of immigrants. Titled Once Upon a Place, the installation lets tourists and NYC locals enter one of three repurposed 1980s booths, pick up the phone, and hear the oral history of a recent New York City immigrant.
A phone book inside each booth teaches visitors more about every storyteller's community — both in New York and the country from which they immigrated. The phone book also has a space for visitors to write down stories about their own families, heritage, and journeys. Read more...
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This artist rigged old New York City phone booths to tell powerful stories of immigrants
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