Sarrah Danziger
Listen to New Orleans
Curated by Sarrah Danziger
Location
Signs will be viewable at the following locations. You will need a cell phone to access the audio of the individual stories.
Hasan “HaSizzle” Matthews
Club Fusions
2004 AP Tureaud Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70119
Seventh Ward/Marigny
Jeffery U. Darensbourg
Bayou Choupic
Moss Street and Bell Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
Mid-City/Bayou St. John
Cherice Harrison-Nelson
Oretha Castle Haley Elementary
1524 Franklin Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
Eighth Ward/St. Roch/Faubourg Marigny
Akilah Toney
Super 10
4321 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
Ninth Ward/Lower Ninth Ward/Bywater (Upper Ninth)
Stacey (Robinson) Towns
Turner's Restaurant and Bar
3113 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
Ninth Ward/Lower Ninth Ward/Bywater (Upper Ninth)
Frank Perez
Double Play
439 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, LA 70112
French Quarter
Judge Edwin Lombard
Foot of Canal Street
Canal Street and Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130
Downtown/Central Business District (CBD)
Harold Short II
1984 Louisiana World Exposition
728 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130
Downtown/Central Business District (CBD)
Jude Acers
YMCA
936 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130
Downtown/Central Business District (CBD)
Contact
The signs will be installed on light posts that are visible and accessible to the public 24 hours a day.
Hours
Open for public viewing 24/7
Accessibility
All sites are outdoors, public, and free to access 24 hours a day by foot, car, or bicycle.
COVID-19 restrictions
N/A (outdoor locations)
About the Exhibition
Listen to New Orleans is a psychogeographic oral histories installation, book, and website about a changing city. Using physical signs embedded throughout New Orleans indicating phone numbers to call, listeners can dial in to hear oral histories from long-term residents of New Orleans about a place at which they stand that no longer exists, and what was lost as a result. The book component will document and preserve these histories in a format that can be taken home, allowing these histories to live on indefinitely.
Listen to New Orleans will launch with nine stories that explore how the deep history of New Orleans’s past is shaping its present. The first nine storytellers featured will be Jude Acers, Jeffery U. Darensbourg, Judge Edwin Lombard, Hasan “Ha Sizzle” Matthews, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Frank Perez, Harold Short II, Akilah Toney, and Stacey (Robinson) Towns.
About the Organizers
Listen to New Orleans was conceived by Sarrah Danziger, who has been documenting New Orleans community members for ten years. Through working on many diverse creative projects, she has been drawn to finding new, interactive ways to share stories and images that are long-form, transformative, accessible, and collaborative. Danziger photographed the storytellers and recorded and edited their interviews.
Listen To New Orleans, ext.9 sign, 2021. Photo by Sarrah Danziger
Listen To New Orleans map, 2021. Image by Sarrah Danziger