Brooklyn, NY
Textilandia
A walking experience of Bushwick, Brooklyn guided via text
TEXTILANDIA: Come walk the streets of Bushwick with Flako! Co-created by Modesto Flako Jimenez and Andrew Kircher, Textilandia is a new text message experience that invites you to traverse these blocks haunted with a deep history of conflict, perseverance and joy. And to recognize how you inscribe yourself wherever you go. All you need is your phone, your body and a comfortable pair of shoes. Flako will be your guide, teaching you to peep the traces of gentrification.
Audience Role
None--this is a guided walk via text message
Ages: All ages
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About Taxilandia
Taxilandia, created and written by Oye Group’s Modesto Flako Jimenez, is a site-specific play-within-a-ride of a city. The piece immerses its audience in the flavors, sounds, sights and dynamic history of a neighborhood confronting social stigmas and the realities of gentrification. Weaving a dramatic, performative ‘tapestry’ that interconnects generations, social classes, races and cultures, Taxilandia complicates our notion of what it means to be a local, an immigrant or a resident of a place, challenging us to answer: “What is my personal roadmap of home?” Originally developed in Jimenez’s own neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, the piece was inspired and drawn from his nine years driving a taxicab and his documentation of conversations with passengers, residents, locals, and immigrants to the neighborhood. The Oye Group now works with companies all over the country to develop local versions of the piece specific to each city.