Under the direction of artist Natacha Clitandre and TOPO's mediation team, citizens were provided with a text, sound and photo capture application programmed by Anagraph to record their geolocalized testimonials on the Spectrographies.org page. Combining local history and personal accounts, this exercise ultimately captured the current spirit of a place.
Initially developed for this exploration around the MIL Campus, the same process had a New York component in October 2017, at the Art in Odd Places festival. Spectrographies in New York thus offers a kind of snapshot of 14th Street represented through the objects we find there and the locations we come across, with which a varied sampling of passers-by identify. This American iteration makes it possible to locate different interpretations and uses of the same heterogeneous sector of the city.
On Thursday, November 8, 2018, a presentation of the project was held at the Salle de diffusion de Parc-Extension for a personalized tour of the website in the presence of the people who participated in the project, which has nearly two hundred testimonials.