Name: Liene Bosquê

Project Title and Short Description

Pliable Boundaries

Pliable Boundaries is a series of walking tours during which participants will collect cyanotype impressions of the architectural railings along 14th Street. Through deliberate acts of touching, participants will create a collective map of the thoroughfare’s appropriated vernacular, landscape, and its inhabitants. The project will happen over the weekend between 9th Avenue and 6th Avenue.

How have you chosen to interpret the theme “SENSE?”

Exploring ways on how the body perceives the cityscape by physical contact to it: by the faculty of touch.

Why do you believe 14th Street is a compelling site for creative response?

It is a street with a diversity of people and I believe, with Union Square, lively activities and performances, people are open to engage in unexpected activities on the surroundings of it. I had the opportunity to be part of the AiOP in 2010 and really felt the amazing response and engagement from the public.

What reactions are you hoping to draw from the public?

I hope the engagement and participation of the public on the project will stimulate conversations and encounters with myself and other participants. I hope the public will share stories of their experiences, memories of the street and of New York City’s communal landscape.  Exploring, feeling of knowing and owning the public space.