Asli Çavusoglu, "Words dash against the façade"

Cleopatra's Needle, behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art on W 81st St, is the starting point for this walking-tour-as-performance-piece created and led by Turkish artist Asli Çavusoglu as part of Performa 11. The numerological felicity of the event's date—11/11/11—is underscored by the artist's use of fortune telling to scrutinize the the ornamental facades of New York buildings featured on the tour.