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Mobility Device

Carmen Papalia and the Hungry March Band performing in Papalia's Mobility Device, 2019
High Line, New York, NY, USA

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Mobility Device is a collaborative performance where a marching band guides the artist through sound, transforming the white cane into a shared sonic tool that reimagines care, collaboration, and sensory experience.

Mobility Device is an innovative, collaborative performance in which the artist is accompanied by the Hungry March band that plays a site-reactive score as guidance for navigating his surroundings. The work transforms the white cane – a symbol of someone with visual impairment – into a collective, sonic experience that opens up ways of thinking about care, collaboration, and a normative hierarchy of the senses.

Credits

Organized by Melanie Kress, High Line Art Associate Curator.

Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support for High Line Art is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, and Charina Endowment Fund. High Line Art is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Corey Johnson.

APA style reference

Papalia, C. (2019). Mobility Device. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/mobility-device/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

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Yorkshire saying: ‘wait or slow down’.

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