Chance Encounter
Project: Chance Encounter
Anatomy of the Event:
Interactive installation, music performances, placemaking project, urban regeneration, community engagement.
Core Competencies:
Strategic Liaison:
Governmental permitting, regulatory multi-agency coordination, municipal approvals.
Production Management:
Installation logistics, vendor & fabricator procurement, on-site operations, and human resource management. event coordination, production of promotional materials.
Creative Strategy & Promotion
Oversight of visual identity, multimedia content production, brand narrative, and management of multidisciplinary creative teams (design, photography, and editorial).
About:
May 31, 2010
In 2010, Robert Hammond (co-founder of Friends of the High Line, in New York City) collaborated with Kristin Jones, Founder of Tevereterno, to transform Piazza Tevere into a living urban laboratory. Inspired by William Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, the project explored how movable seating and interactive art could revitalize neglected city landscapes.
The centerpiece featured 100 movable numbered park chairs—allowing the public to dictate the choreography of the space—paired with a site-specific performance of Lisa Bielawa’s Chance Encounter. This immersive sound work, performed by soprano Susan Narucki and the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, used overheard "transient" dialogue as its libretto, blurring the line between high art and the everyday public experience.
Chance Encounter on the Tiber serves as a landmark case study in urban planning. The project was debuted during the opening weekend of MAXXI (Rome) and later featured as a cornerstone event for the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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