Stages Of Decay

Julia Solis conducts archaeological parlor games and investigates ruined urban spaces. As the founder of Dark Passage, she started the creative preservation group Ars Subterranea in 2002 with the object of staging scavenger hunts and exhibitions in unusual locations in New York. She is an officer of the Madagascar Institute and Place in History, the executive producer of the film American Ruins, a co-founder of Furnace Press, and recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her publications include New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City and Scrub Station.