Date: May 2018 – March 2019
Park is open daily: 6 a.m. until midnight
Opening Reception: May 4th from 10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Thomas Paine Park, Lafayette Street and Worth Street, New York, NY 10007
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Our Memories is an evolving audience participatory installation. Recognizing the need to record one’s personal experience, these neuron inspired sculptures contain cavities in which the participants place a color-coded “memory stone”. Viewers recall a powerful memory and then share the memory by depositing it in a sculpture. The “memory stones” are color-coded into six emotive categories: joy, anger, love, sadness, fear, and surprise. New sculptures will be filled during one-day events on April 20th at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park and May 4th in Thomas Paine Park. The seven sculptures will then be on view for 10 months. The Our Memories project is both a collective memorial piece, made complete by thousands of individual memories from people all over the world, and an experience that connects us to our core and to one another.
Special thanks to the NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program, and to the contributions of private donors in making this exhibition possible.
For over 50 years, NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program has brought contemporary public artworks to the city’s parks, making New York City one of the world’s largest open-air galleries. The agency has consistently fostered the creation and installation of temporary public art in parks throughout the five boroughs. Since 1967, NYC Parks has collaborated with arts organizations and artists to produce over 2,000 public artworks by 1,300 notable and emerging artists in over 200 parks. For more information about the program visit www.nyc.gov/parks/art.