Historiphone, 2019
MONUMENT LAB for New Arts Justice
Wood, Vinyl, Cpu, Speaker, and Selected Oral Histories from the Krueger-Scott African American Oral History Project, Center for Migration and the Global City, Rutgers University-Newark
On the Occasion of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values Festival at Rutgers University - Newark, New Arts Justice and Monument Lab installed a Historiphone – an interactive oral history kiosk – at Express Newark. The goal is to honor and invite engagement with oral histories from the Rutgers’ Krueger-Scott African American Oral History Collection, an archive that spotlights the experiences of African American residents in Newark through the Great Migration.
1 Select a disc from the drawer
2 Place the disc on the turntable
3 The oral history on the disc will begin playing
4 Please return the disc to the drawer when you are finished
Featuring interviews with: Richard Cooke, Alma Flagg, Martha Gaynor, Thelma W. Gillis, Willie Belle Hooper, Annie Rose Johnston, Carrie Lee, Mageline Little, Ronald Marshall, Virginia Morton, Bernice Rountree, Kitty Taylor, and Owen Wilkerson.
ABOUT THE KRUGER-SCOTT ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION
Krueger-Scott is the largest collection of oral history interviews conducted with African-American residents of Newark who came to the city during the Great Migration, as well as those whose local roots stretch back generations. The faculty, staff and graduate students at Rutgers University-Newark
who have worked on the collection in collaboration with local cultural institutions are proud to have helped preserve, archive, and make public these remarkable oral narratives that describe an as yet unwritten history of twentieth century African-American life.
Designer: William Hodgson
Artistic Director: Paul Farber
Fabricators: Stephen Smeltzer, Keary Rosen, and Joseph Labib
Partners: New Arts Justice at Express Newark, the Price Institute,
the Krueger-Scott Oral History Collection at Rutgers University Libraries, Form Design Studio, and Rutgers Center for Migration and the Global City.
Special Acknowledgments: Alliyah Allen, Anthony Alvarez, Isaiah Beard, Samantha Boardman, Melissa Cooper, Victor Davson, Anne Englot, Natalia Ikheloa, Nick Kline, Mark Krasovic, Tim Raphael, Salamishah Tillet, Laura Troiano, and Krista White.