



Sculptures, sound, and live performance scattered across City Hall Park explore how objects communicate. Expect concrete poetry, marble bunnies, and a mesmerizing recording of starling flocks—all riffing on Walter Benjamin's idea that everything has a language.
Contemporary sculpture park
Live performance art
Sound installation
Free public exhibition
Tips
🎭catch Tino Sehgal's live performance piece
🔊sound installation runs 18 minutes
🗺️artworks spread across the lawn, plan to wander
The Language of Things
Lower Manhattan




Sculptures, sound, and live performance scattered across City Hall Park explore how objects communicate. Expect concrete poetry, marble bunnies, and a mesmerizing recording of starling flocks—all riffing on Walter Benjamin's idea that everything has a language.
Contemporary sculpture park
Live performance art
Sound installation
Free public exhibition
Tips
🎭catch Tino Sehgal's live performance piece
🔊sound installation runs 18 minutes
🗺️artworks spread across the lawn, plan to wander
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