Sense & the City: Exploring New York City Through the Five Senses

Sense & the City: Exploring New York City Through the Five Senses is a multisensory exhibit presenting nearly two hundred places around the five boroughs that Caitlin has explored over eighteen years of writing her City Lore blog. About Each place is featured with a photograph and brief excerpt from the blog. The show also includes multisensory, interactive elements drawn from Caitlin’s experiences: scratch-and-sniff scent strips of New York City smells, from the balsam of sidewalk Christmas tree stands to the brine of a Bronx pickle factory; a “tactile rail” of objects that visitors can touch, including dirt from Aqueduct Racetrack and a basket Caitlin wove from Staten Island’s invasive vines; foods from around the five boroughs (at the opening only); and a guest residency by the Surround Sounds Piano_QNS, an upright piano that has been retrofitted by local artists Arthur Fleischmann and Daniel Giachetti so each key plays a singular sound collected from the borough of Queens. Installation