A Pigeon's Perspective, New Museum NYC

Front cover of the map.

Back cover of the map.

Participants of the walk holding the accompanying maps.

In front of the old PS 64 during the walk in the East Village.

The Lower East Side used to be full of pigeon coops for food and for entertainement.

Today there is one pigeon breeder left in the East Village, Anton.

Feral pigeons make good food for the red-tailed hawks, Christo and Dora, that are celebrated a symbolic of New York City's 'green' policies.

"A Pigeon's Perspective" was two walks in NYC's Lower East Side for the IDEAS CITY Festival at the New Museum in collaboration with the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.

Based on ethnographic work in the LES/East Village as well as historical and archival research on the area's animals, demographics and political activism, Chloé Roubert designed and guided two walks around everyday animals to comment on urban change, notions of dirt and health, past and present human ideologies in NYC.

The maps accompanying the walk can be found here.

The New Yorker reviewed Chloé Roubert and her preparatory work for the project: "A Scholar of Pigeons" by Betsy Morais.