SI Visions

Lena Henke on Autocartography

Season 1, Episode 9

2016

Still from Lena Henke on Autocartography, 2016.

New York based artist Lena Henke discusses her fascination with urban planning and design, and in particular the notorious city planner Robert Moses, who took a ‘meat axe’ to the New York as though it were a sculpture of his own. From the BQE to Dead Horse Bay, Henke describes a personal psychogeography of the city.