Daniel Bejar "Get Lost! (NYC)"
Abrons Arts Center
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Coinciding with the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the island Mannahatta, "Get Lost! (NYC)" restores the Metropolitan Transity Authority’s subway maps, signs, and place names to how they may have geographically looked and sounded in 1609. These restorations — based on 18th-century cartography and toponymy, particularly the 1782 British Headquarters Map — erase 400 years of accumulated history, street names, neighborhoods, and subway lines, returning Mannahatta to its original green spaces, streams, ponds, and shores the Lenni Lenape Indians once inhabited.
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from May 08, 2010 to June 15, 2010