Other Place, a one-night participatory installation and performance at Boston’s City Hall, used sound, and symbols from the underground railroad and early 20th century hobo code to imagine an abolitionist movement active all around us, guiding people who need safe passage.
The title encompasses both the negative connotations of an "other place": a sense floating around in our current political climate that there are "others" who belong "somewhere else", while also proposing a better, alternative world hidden or embedded within the "real" or "regular" one, that not everyone is meant to find.
Performers included myself (as “tramp”) and sair goetz (as “sigil siren.”)
Other Place was part of Recalibrate, a takeover of Boston’s City Hall by Mobius Artists Group, curated by Jasper A. Sanchez and produced by the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, with support from ILLUMINUS.
Photos by Annielly Camargo, courtesy of Courtesy of Mobius, Inc.