Staten Island aerial photograph, 2012. Photo: Iwan Baan © 2012 Iwan Baan
For stillspotting nyc: staten island, sound artist Justin Bennett and poet Matthea Harvey present Telettrofono, an audio walking tour that braids history with fantasy along and around the waterfront. Telettrofono will be offered in the St. George and New Brighton neighborhoods of Staten Island for four summer weekends: July 14–15, July 21–22, July 28–29, and August 4–5, 2012. Starting from a stillspotting nyc kiosk, located at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in St. George, visitors will take a soundwalk, guided by an approximately one and a half-hour recording. The walk explores the tragic story of Antonio Meucci, Staten Island–native and inventor of, among other things, the first telephone, the telettrofono, from which the exhibition takes its name. More.
