In this imagined universe, an organization called PECSNYC (Progress, Efficiency, Comfort and Self-fulfillment for New York City) sponsors visionaries to realize their bold, out-of-the-box ideas to innovate in the city’s transit system and improve New Yorkers’ quality of living.
Parallel New York
Multimedia Installation, 2018
Carrie Sijia Wang
PLATFORM: CREATIVE MUSINGS ON MASS TRANSIT, 2018
Special thanks to: Tong Wu
Enter an alternative New York City where fantastical transit system inventions aim to solve the city’s various problems with Parallel New York. In this imagined universe, an organization called PECSNYC (Progress, Efficiency, Comfort and Self-fulfillment for New York City) sponsors visionaries to realize their bold, out-of-the-box ideas to innovate in the city’s transit system and improve New Yorkers’ quality of living. From an in-train garden that allows subway passengers to nurture plants and be close to nature, to a giant moving sidewalk improved upon from Alfred Speer’s early 20th-century Railway Sidewalk, visit an almost perfect world of unlimited imagination, optimism, and possibility.
Visit PECSNYC’s website at pecsnyc.org.
Installation at New York Transit Museum
Parallel New York was installed in the R-11 prototype car as part of New York Transit Museum’s PLATFORM event. The installation fully utilized the interior of the vintage subway car and used two video projections, in-train broadcasts, integrated subway ads, flyers and handouts to create an imaginary world.
The ads, flyers and handouts offer different perspectives in this made-up world other than PECSNYC’s overly optimistic point of view.
Every 5 minutes or so, the two videos are interrupted by a robot train conductor’s announcement.
