CURRENT is an OFF-SITE project part of Onassis ONX’s Immersive Arcade in partnership with Games for Change! Onassis ONX will be hosting the Immersive Arcade from June 26-30, 2024, which will showcase a co-curated selection of XR works from the Onassis ONX membership and the G4C ecosystem.
CURRENT is an audio walk, activated by location and time of day. It is accessed via the POINT.A app, using your own phone and headphones. The walk begins and ends at Zuccotti Park and lasts about an hour, and includes pavement, cobblestones and gravel paths.
To access the walk, download the POINT.A app in the Apple Store or Google Play Store. Please note that the walk starts every 30 minutes. Please arrive ten minutes before your chosen walk time to get connected.
About CURRENT:
“The vignettes [in CURRENT], timed to play at the golden hour, are casual, edifying and candid, asking us to consider the overlapping landscapes of the cemented-over wetlands, the skyscraper canyons, the storm surges — linking the city’s beating heart with the organs of our own bodies and questioning how, after so much distress, we might rebuild.” — Alexis Soloski, The New York Times
Winner of the 2021 Tribeca Festival Immersive Creative Nonfiction Award and the Tribeca X Award, CURRENT is a site-specific soundwalk through Lower Manhattan accessed via a mobile app and headphones. CURRENT immerses participants using binaural sound, composition and environmental recordings to draw together a narrative that includes themes of water, time, construction, destruction, synchronicity, and resilience.
CURRENT was originally commissioned by Arts Brookfield for Zuccotti Park.