World-Wide-Walks / Baptist Temple
Peter d’Agostino © 2005/2021 Video preview: 3min Edition: 5+2 AP
This site-specific work was performed in Philadelphia’s Baptist Temple two years before the building restoration began in 2007. The largest Protestant church in the U.S. when it opened in 1891, it also served as the site of a college that later became Temple University. The Baptist Temple walks inspired the World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / Temples project with sites in Rome, Egypt, India, and Cambodia. The multi-channel video and web installation premiered at the new Temple Performing Arts Center in 2011. Sound design: Maurice Wright