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Crossing the BLVD exhibit opens at the Queens Museum of Art

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December 14, 2003 - New York - dotsperinch is pleased to announce the opening of the Crossing the BLVD exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art.

Crossing the BLVD is a cross-media project that documents and portrays the largely invisible lives, images, sounds and stories of new immigrants and refugees who live in the borough of Queens, New York - the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States. The exhibition at the Unisphere Gallery of The Queens Museum of Art, on view through March 28, 2004, features Crossing the BLVD portraits and landscapes, sound stations, and the Crossing the BLVD Mobile Story Booth.

The Mobile Story Booth, designed by dotsperinch in collaboration with Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, provides a roving point of access to a living archive of first-person narratives recounting the immigration experience of new americans. Operating as a probe, the Booth extends public access to the Crossing the BLVD story archive beyond the internet, and opens up the process of building the archive to those without an internet connection. Community centers, shopping malls, schools and museums all become potential sites where the Booth will be temporarily installed, providing an open framework for the archive's expansion.

The exhibit consists of Lehrer's large-scale photographic compositions that document an astonishingly diverse community, revealing the cultural hybridization experienced daily by the new immigrants and refugees that inhabit the borough of Queens. Photographs are paired with short narrative excerpts, map overlays, sound stations for related Crossing the BLVD audio compositions, music by Sloan/Lehrer/Johnson and Crossing participants, and radio documentaries.

about EarSay

EarSay is an artist driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. Founded by Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, EarSay projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. They are committed to fostering understanding across cultures, generations, gender and class through artistic productions and education.

about dotsperinch

dotsperinch designs interative technologies for information rich environments. From physical installations to projects for the web, local networks and wireless devices, we create situations that encourage exploration, self-reflection and open dialogue.

Partners and clients span the arts, museum, and education communities - including UNICEF, the National Building Museum, the Jewish Museum, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the National Arts Council of Ireland, and independant artists and non-profit organsisations. Recent projects include SonicMemorial.org - a memorial to the World Trade Center, the National Building Museum's online exhibit Building-America.org, and the UNICEF Video Booth located @ 3 UN Plaza in New York City.