Join us for an evening of interdisciplinary performance featuring Russian choreographers Alexander Andriyashkin (TSEKH Dance, Moscow) and Tatiana Luzai (Derevo Physical theater, Saint Petersburg), and theater directors Kseniya Petrenko (LIQUID Theater, Chelyabinsk) and Aleksei Zherebtsov (LIQUID Theater, Chelyabinsk). In New York as part of a residency co-hosted by Jacob's Pillow Dance, the artists will spin together site-specific works combining elements of street theater, contemporary dance, and post-modern performance. Followed by a light wine reception.
$5 suggested donation. Email akadysheva-yong@cecartslink.org to reserve a ticket.
(Above: Spacebuster at CSV Cultural Center, Photo Alan Tansey )
View Alan Tansey's photostream documenting evening events in the Spacebuster
Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure - a portable, expandable pavilion - that is designed to transform public spaces of all kinds into points for community gathering. A new iteration of a past Raumlabor project, the Küchenmonument (presented in Europe in 2006-8), the Spacebuster will make its first appearance in the US this evening and will travel throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn for 10 consecutive evenings hosting various community events.
The pavilion is comprised of an inflatable bubble-like dome that emerges from a step van that also houses the compressor that keeps the Spacebuster inflated. The dome expands and organically adjusts to its surroundings, be it in a field, a wooded park, or below a highway overpass. The material is a translu... read more
A live 5-day blogathon of back-to-back discussions, interviews, panel talks, slideshows, films and parties with scheduled and unscheduled guests, themed around landscape and the built environment.
To mark the closing of the White House Redux exhibition, Storefront will hold an all-night election vigil in the gallery with live a large-screen CNN projection, 5 cable news channels, blogging stations and wi-fi for blog reading (and writing). The event, organized in association with Control Group, will continue until the 44th President of the United States is announced. Everyone welcome!
Event begins 6pm. Drinks will be provided while they last - BYO food and sleeping bags. Coffee and croissants from Ceci Cela will be served at 7am.
On the last evening of Didier Fiuza Faustino's installation (G)HOST IN THE (S)HELL Storefront will host a summer closing party and officially launch the Facade Restoration.
On July 1, construction work begins on the restoration of Storefront's famed facade designed in 1992 by Vito Acconci and Steven Holl. In late September, the gallery will reopen with a newly-restored exterior and an exciting new season of exhibitions and events.
DONATE TO THE FACADE RESTORATION PROJECT NOW!
We have now raised more than half the funds we need to carry out the restoration. Your contribution, however small, will go a long way towards giving this great work of architecture another 15 years of life!
Donors will be acknowledged at the reopening party and on a special-edition newsletter published in September.
This April, Storefront for Art and Architecture and Abitare magazine will be appearing in Milan for the 2008 edition of the Funiture Fair (16-21 April) with a new version of the Ring Dome pavilion previously installed at Storefront Gallery in New York. The pavilion, designed by Minsuk Cho/Mass Studies and built out of 1,500 hula-hoops and and 12,000 zip-ties, will be installed in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, the shopping arcade that connects Piazza Duomo and Piazza La Scala.
During the five days of the Fair, the pavilion will host a series of events organized by Abitare magazine and Storefront.
These will include a 100-minute dialogue between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pierre Paulin and Rem Koolhaas; a day-long domino-interview with 50 participants, starting with Naoto Fukasawa; Gaetano Pesce in conversation with Oliviero Toscani; and a day-long open editorial meeting.
This year, Storefront will begin an exciting new chapter in its history that will carry the gallery beyond the confines of New York – a series of new Storefronts will pop up for a brief time in cities around the world to host events and exhibitions, and then disappear.
Pop-Ups will avoid the conventional gallery format by temporarily taking over unoccupied spaces in unexpected neighborhoods, to exhibit and discuss pressing topics in art and architecture.
Engaging the City presents The Obscene Bird of Night, a carnival block party with exquisite entertainment brought to you by the Four of Babylon. Engaging the City is an independent monthly lecture series that serves as a venue for individuals in a variety of professions who engage the extraordinary and exciting complexity of contemporary cities in novel ways.
(above: Route of Stalker Lab's walk for Performance I on October 8)
21 SEPTEMBER - 16 OCTOBER
Twenty-five years ago, in September 1982, Storefront's first public event got underway in its original Prince Street location. Performance A-Z, organized by the gallery's founders Kyong Park and R L Seltman, and artist Arleen Schloss, was a 26-day sequence of performances by New York-based artists. Each of the 26 performers was allocated one evening slot. The event became a manifesto for the gallery's future programming: as Kyong Park wrote in his introduction, "Storefront supports the idea that art and design have the potential and responsibility to affect public policies which influence the quality of life and the future of all cities."
In late September 2007, Storefront will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a new edition of its first event. Entitled Performance Z-A, this 26-day celebration will be hosted in Petrosino Park, adjacent to Storefront, in... read more
How do bikesharing projects in Europe work? As part of the New York Bike Share Project, jointly organised by Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Forum for Urban Design, Richard Grasso from Clear Channel Adshel present the SmartBike schemes his company runs in Barcelona, Stockholm and Oslo and explains what advertising companies have to do with free bicycles
To mark the closing of the exhibition CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, Storefront will host two lectures by eminent architecture historians on the influences and inspirations behind Soviet architecture of the '70s and '80s. The lectures will be followed by a reception and a late viewing of the exhibition.
Tuesday, June 12, 6:30pm
Anna Bronovitskaja: Soviet Architecture 1970-1989
How could such unusual and eclectic architecture be produced in a era notorious for mass-prefabrication and highly-standardized construction processes? This talk will offer an insight into the social and cultural context into which the buildings documented in the CCCP exhibition were born, with specific reference to key events such as the exhibition of Finsterlin drawings in the Moscow Museum of Architecture or the construction of a Buckminster Fuller pavilion in the 'America' exhibition in Sokolniki.
Laura Kurgan presents some of her recent work that uses GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to map and compare crime geographies, prison geographies, and other geographic information.
Lawrence Weschler discusses the concept of Convergence - subject of his upcoming book "Everything that Rises" - and its presence in art, poetry, historical imagery, and cosmopolitanism
Wes Janz discusses the possibility of deconstructing Flint, Michigan, and presents the blight, demolition, and transformation seen in the architecture of Flint and other Midwestern cities.
Panel discussion with Lebbeus Woods and Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), Dan Hill (City of Sound), Jill Fehrenbacher (Inhabitat), and Bryan Finoki (Subtopia).
Jake Barton presents the development of STORYCORPS, his method of mapping personal stories to physical locations, and discusses its future application as part of the World Trade Center complex.
LOT-EK's Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano present images of their Mobile Dwelling Units, which are buildings constructed of transformed shipping containers.
Speaking at POSTOPOLIS! on May 29, photographer Stanley Greenberg tells some of the stories behind his pictures of construction sites and physics laboratories around the world.
