We invite you to join us at the opening celebration for this year’s interactive oral history exhibit, which will mix online and in-person, synchronous and asynchronous. As in the past few years, most of our students have created virtual exhibits, which will go live at 5PM on April 29. From 7-8PM on April 29 we will have an open house-style online event where you can congratulate students and chat with them informally about their work. In the weeks following this opening, each student will be holding at least one live event, ranging from listening parties to soundwalks, in-person and online. Stay tuned for registration details for these. You can register now for the April 29 opening - registered participants will receive the link to the exhibits by 5PM on the 29th.
Our students are creating this year’s exhibit in a moment of cautious venturing out. In New York City, spring is coming, and withdrawing, and coming back. We are now allowed to take our masks off in class, but many are keeping them on. We noticed that, in this moment, our work engages with the dynamics of inside and outside.
How much of our internal realities can we, or should we, share externally through oral history processes? How can oral history help us to understand and to cross boundaries - political, social, material, linguistic?