BUILT ON THE SITE of…
Village Hall, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
April 16–June 8, 2023
Commissioned by Hastings Village Arts Commission

Site-specific installation

At the street-level entrance to Hastings-on-Hudson’s Municipal Building, a Museum in the Streets sign explains to visitors and passersby that the Village Hall is “BUILT ON THE SITE of the home of Joseph Treanor, owner of a waterfront bluestone yard.” Teased from the signage, BUILT ON THE SITE of... opens up stories of the Municipal Building’s past lives, unearthing from its surfaces pages upon pages of ghostly fragments and remains. Warped paper forms fill walls, frayed communication cables travel here and there, and threaded maps spread elsewhere. These and other site-specific interventions meander through the building, where physical and administrative architectures operate not as passive backdrops for art hanging, but as active portals for imagining other times and other places.