Notoriously stressed-out New Yorkers will be invited to slow down and get in touch with their spiritual side during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (26 September-4 October), thanks to a mobile installation built by the artists Danielle Durchslag and Ryan Frank of the art collective Assembly Required.
A Wandering Sukkah will feature a small shelter with an open-sky roof, in which the observant are meant to eat and sleep for the week-long Sukkot holiday, that will be carted around all five boroughs by pickup truck. Visitors of all religious persuasions will be invited inside—one at a time—to pause for a moment in the city that never sleeps and enjoy what Durchslag calls the structure’s “curated sky view”.
“We believe that each New Yorker who enters our Sukkah will help change the energy of New York City for the better,” Durchlag said in a video to promote the project’s Kickstarter campaign. The Invisible Dog art centre, which is also holding (stationary) shows by Steve and William Ladd and Mathilde Roussel at its Brooklyn campus (until 17 October), will host the project.