Making Medieval New York

This field-trip-heavy summer seminar focuses on the reception and influence of medieval European architecture in New York City through the buildings and monuments that revive, replicate, and preserve it. We examine the architectural as well as the social, historical, and political environment of nineteenth and twentieth century New York City, in which medieval architecture came to symbolize not only religion but class, erudition, exoticism, heritage, civic pride, and even hygiene. On site visits include St. John the Divine, Trinity Church Wall Street, The Met Cloisters, Warren Place Mews, Central Synagogue, and the Woolworth Building.

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Patient Denies

Patient Denies translates the coded language of a lengthy diagnostic process into the International Code of Signals.

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Walking Tour

A wall sculpture playing field recordings made across the city of Rome through a web of the disposable, mono headphones used to whisper into the ears of tourists.

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Personal Odyssey

An installation of Cornell University’s  19th-century plaster cast of a bust of Homer on a customized plinth. At the push of a button on the plinth, Homer, as bard and guide, generates directions from classically named locations across New York state (i.e. Troy, Attica, Rome) back to Ithaca New York. Viewers receive these directions as a printed receipt.

With Rebecca Levitan.

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postmedieval
Vol. 12, Issue 1
December 2021.

Part of the article cluster Sensory Presence and Senses of Absence in the European
Middle Ages edited by Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey

AJS Perspectives
Fall 2021