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HSBC
The project is intended to engage different parts of the Chinatown community
over time, with our first installation at the HSBC bank location on
Canal Street and Bowery opening on April 18, 2006. The sites listed
below are potential sites intended for future locations of the installation.
HSBC site.
Directions
subway: N/Q/R, J/M/Z, 4/6, A/C/E, 1/9 Canal Street
We have identified a few potential sites for the project, all within an area of varying density of movement, and foot traffic during the week and weekends. The sites are of high visibility and within the parameters of the requirement of the technology and level of intimacy the project hopes to build between the pedestrian and the piece. (We are open to suggestions or further locations).
Columbus
Park
Installation is being proposed for the summer 2006 as a community arts
evening event at the northern pavilion. Columbus Park was named after
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Bounded by Baxter (formally Orange),
Worth (formerly Anthony), Bayard and Mulberry Street. The site has previously
been named Mulberry Bend Park, Five Points Park and Paradise Park, and
is adjacent to the infamous 'Five Points' and 'the Bend'. Columbus Park
is heavily utilized by the community and residents of the area.
Bank
of East Asia Site
The first proposed location is on Mulberry St. south of Canal Street
between the sites of two Banks: Bank of East Asia and the China Trust
Bank. This site is prominent in its location in Chinatown and has the
optimum physical requirements for the success of this project. The site
combines the commerce and culture of the area and highlights the notion
of exchange, community and work. The history of the two banks also highlights
the role it has played and will play in the generation of the future
economic and artistic planning in Chinatown. The walls flanking Mulberry
Street as seen in the proposed images have a great surface area for
installation and allow an easy dialogue to exist between the user and
spectator from the other side of the street. Bank of
East Asia image
Music
Palace Site
The second site is located on Hester Street and Bowery where it utilizes
the blank white exterior wall on Hester Street. The site projects onto
the old Chinese Theatre (Music Palace). For decades, Chinese immigrants
flocked to Chinatown's eight or so Chinese-language movie theaters because
the movies delivered about the only entertainment around and the theaters
afforded a sense of community and comfort (now they are all long gone).
This site provides as a gesture to also the re-adaptation of abandoned
buildings in Chinatown. In highlighting the conceptual rebuilding and
transformation of the urban density and landscape of New York City’s
Chinatown, it traces a linear connection to the eastward expansion of
Chinatown. This site is beautiful at night as the existing expansive
white wall provides a blank canvas to be projected on to and as an exciting
contrast to the layered mural of the old Chinese Theatre. Music
Palace Site image
Information
Kiosk Site
This site is on the triangular median on the intersection of Baxter
street, Walker street and Canal street area, at the crossroads of many
activities that generate the hustle and bustle of NYC’s Chinatowns
uniqueness: food vendors, retail shops and one of the most traversed
fish markets. The site takes the dominant Explore Chinatown information
kiosk as the base to project on the wall across to the highly visible
wall facing eastward on Canal Street. This particular site will help
to generate a more visible location for the project and highlight the
‘work’ cultural element that is critical for the piece.
Information Kiosk Site image