This artist rigged old New York City phone booths to tell powerful stories of immigrants
Source: Mashable
Walk into the graffiti-covered phone booth and pick up the phone — a person on the other end wants to tell you their story.
A new interactive art installation in New York City's Times Square is using old phone booths to share the stories of immigrants. Titled Once Upon a Place, the installation lets tourists and NYC locals enter one of three repurposed 1980s booths, pick up the phone, and hear the oral history of a recent New York City immigrant.
A phone book inside each booth teaches visitors more about every storyteller's community — both in New York and the country from which they immigrated. The phone book also has a space for visitors to write down stories about their own families, heritage, and journeys.
Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi recorded the oral histories featured in the installation over the course of several months, hoping to use art to create a safe environment for immigrants to share their experiences.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/07/10/immigrant-stories-phone-booth-nyc/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
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