For several days we'd been planning to attend "a chance encounter on the tiber," the installation/music piece by Robert Hammond (the High Line mastermind) and Lisa Bielawa (NY MATA Festival co-founder) on the Tiber River, which runs through Rome and is very close to our apartment. The piece was "an urban revitalization plan combined with amusic performance composed expressly for outdoor public space" and was a tribute to William Whyte's studies "The Social LIfe of Small Urban Spaces," in which Whyte discovers that one of the most successful tools in creating vibrant public spaces was the use of movable chairs. Hammond and Bielawa painted 100 folding chairs red and placed them by the river and then put on four separate 30 minute shows. We attended the last show (20:00) this evening.
Above, part of the Blue Chamber Orchestra. Below, the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet.
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