Experiential Fiction
May 13—May 27, 2007
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(New York, NY) 110-mile route between New York City and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard)
Come On Pilgrim: A 110-Mile Exhibition, curated by Laura Mott, is a map and audio companion that leads visitors to six commissioned projects by Robert Bryn, Karl Larsson, Joanna Malinowska, Lee Walton, and James Walsh that are physically placed between New York City and CCS Bard.
For Come on Pilgrim, Lee Walton asked four diverse writers to create site/experience specific short stories for selected locations. These stories, being uncannily intertwined to the actual site, can only make sense if read at the actual location.
By referencing the smells, sounds and real life details of the immediate environment, these writers bring these fictional stories closer to real life. In fact, some stories actually instruct you to consume beverages and move things while others implicate you as the main character in a sour love affair or an accomplice to a murder.