EMPIRE STATES

“Sometimes reality can be too complex to be conveyed by the spoken word. Legend remoulds it into a form that can be spread all across the world”
– Alpha 60, Alphaville

If New York is the city that never sleeps, then the chances are that it’s going to lose some of its bearings. It’s become both iconic and a product of our collective, cultural imagination – its towering mesh of grime and grandeur has been the inspiration for almost a century’s worth of fantastic visions, from Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent Expressionist masterpiece, , to Tim Burton’s scarab-like, steampunk Gotham City. It’s the natural home for cinematic, extradimensional destruction, and in novels like Paul Auster’s groundbreaking or albums such as Sonic Youth’s , a city as an internal state of fluid, ever-shifting consciousness, simultaneously