Janet Cardiff is perhaps best known for her signature audio walks, which she has made in London, Florence, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, and elsewhere. Her gallery installations–often made with George Bures Miller, Cardiff’s husband and artistic collaborator–use the narrative and technical language of film noir to create lush, suspenseful sound and video works. Janet Cardiff was born in Canada in 1957; she and Miller currently live and work in Berlin. They have recently had exhibitions at Luhring Augustine, New York (2004); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2003); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2002); and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2002). A recent mid-career retrospective, Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller, opened at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, in 2001 and has since traveled to Montreal, Oslo, and Turin.
40 PART MOTET
LOCATION
Subways: N, R, Q, to 57th Street or N, R to Fifth Avenue; A, B, C, D, 1, 9 to Columbus Circle.
INSTRUCTIONS
*Before You Go*
Visit the site here.
- Play each of the six tracks on the soundcloud page when prompted by the artist in the audio.
- Look at the correlating photos when prompted by the artist.
On the Day: Meet at the Artists Gate park entrance at 59th Street and 6th Avenue. You’ll start on a bench near the Jose Marti statue.
