Experience hosted by Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff’s Her Long Black Hair is a 35-minute journey that begins at Central Park South and transforms an everyday stroll in the park into an absorbing psychological experience. Cardiff (b.1957, Brussels, Canada) takes each listener on a winding journey through Central Park’s 19th-century pathways, retracing the footsteps of an enigmatic dark-haired woman. Relayed in a quasi-narrative style, Her Long Black Hair is a complex investigation of location, time, sound, and physicality, interweaving stream-of-consciousness observations with fact and fiction, local history, opera and gospel music, and other atmospheric and cultural elements. The experience of the walk uses photographs to reflect upon ... Show More
Audience Role
Guests follow the pace of the audio walk to trace the story being told as they traverse Central Park. Note: the piece is designed so that guests keep pace with the ... Show More
Content Advisories
No content advisories
13 +
Interaction Advisories
No physical contact with performers
Mobility Advisories
Walking
Uneven terrain
No parking nearby
Event is wheelchair accessible.
Location
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Janet Cardiff
Hosting immersive events on EI since July, 2021
Janet Cardiff is perhaps best known for her signature audio walks, which she has made in London, Florence, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, and elsewhere. Her gallery installations--often made with George Bures Miller, Cardiff's husband and artistic collaborator--use the narrative and technical language of film noir to create lush, suspenseful sound and video works. Janet Cardiff was born in Canada in 1957; she and Miller currently live and work in Berlin.