Remake Estate (2010)
Corner of 24th Avenue and Massachusetts Street
ReMake Estate is a six-week artistic residency (June/July 2010) in the Mid West of America where we will host an "open house" in an abandoned building and vacant lot to discuss and implement forms of tactical economics (escapes from the profit driven economy). Through this process we hope to build a community meeting place and garden (with a focus on growing food to eat) that will be managed by community groups after we leave. Part of the process of the residency will be discussing how this community resource is managed into the future. Free food will be provided during the six weeks of our residency and there will be a range of speakers invited to start discussions on key aspects of survival after the global economic crisis. This work will be developed in conjunction with community groups in the area.
The name deliberately evokes Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates an unrealised project where Matta-Clark bought up “gutterspace”, cheap unusable slivers of land sliced from New York’s city grid through anomalies in surveying and zoning. He collected their maps, deeds, and other bureaucratic documentation and planned to use them as sites for his “anarchitectural” interventions, but died before the project was ever completed. In ReMake Estate we will similarly work with unused property – but in today’s context it is no longer just slivers of land but entire chunks of the city (family homes have been selling for as little as US$500 in some parts of America).
This is a work in progress, for more information: contactyouarehere@gmail.com
Funding for this project has been received by the Australia Council for the Arts.
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