Mid / Town

On June 8th, 2024, The Red Aesthetic will be performing Mid / Town, a ritual traversal of liminal spaces throughout midtown Manhattan. Mid / Town will be an intentional journey through several atria, arcades, passageways, and other public spaces that weave through midtown, breaching the manifest content of the grid system and revealing a vast latent network of alternative possibilities for moving through space, as well as the surplus aesthetics of a parallel world forged in the interstices of building codes, public works projects, and tax incentives.

This journey, and its many interstitial spaces of diverse, shapes, sizes, colors, lighting conditions, and other architectonic qualities, will provide a medium to slide out of the pervasive narrative that induces us to perform as particular characters caught in the grid system of culture: shopping, working, dwelling, consuming, and ultimately amounting to a subject predictably driven by the teleology of normative destinations. Instead, we will be going nowhere but into space itself, exploring the possibility of being new subjects unpredictably free to shift through poorly-charted territories. To this end, this journey will involve many opportunities to experiment with moving and becoming in these spaces.

More details to come! Details will be on this Instagram feed along with many pics of liminal spaces.