Another Seedbed: From Domesticity to Hospitality / Ignacio G. Galán + Jesse McCor، + Future Projects
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Text description provided by the architects. Another Seedbed is a new node in the cultural fabric of New York City. Resulting from the renovation of a ،e in a former hat factory located in a late-century cast iron building in Brooklyn, the project keeps the impetus of earlier occupations of industrial ،es in the city by facilitating different forms of ،spitality through artistic performances and other public events that the owner ،izes–countering the tendency towards normative domesticities that characterize current trends in the renovation of former industrial ،es in large metropolises.
Performance artists operating within and along the occupation of lofts in New York City and other post-industrial cities from the 1960s to the 1980s systematically disturbed the construction of intimacy and challenged the notions of property and owner،p. Such challenges were also decisive to the habitation of lofts, which questioned the conventional valuation of ،es and the ideologies of domesticity.
The owner and activator of this ،e had been living in an old industrial ،e in Bushwick, where he s،ed to ،ize parties, performances, and other events. These happenings not only probed the boundaries between intimate ،es and public occupations but additionally provided the ground for the formation of social and cultural networks. With such impetus, he imagined a ،e in which he could live, work, and ،st other artist friends to develop their work. Neither just a private studio nor an art gallery, the ،e is equipped to welcome gatherings that operate between a dinner party and a public performance. Artists appropriate the ،e and become ،sts themselves, expanding the communities that the project brings together.
The ،e will not advertise its performances. Some neighbors might not know of its existence. Others will hear about an event through friends. Some might find themselves there often and will develop networks of neighborliness within it.
A number of volumes in red-stained pine plywood, hand-troweled earthen clay plaster, colored MDF, and back-lit smoked polycarbonate with colored wood frames and a ،st of moving furniture articulate these encounters and c،reograph the boundaries that the project negotiates
منبع: https://www.archdaily.com/1007689/another-seedbed-from-domesticity-to-،spitality-ignacio-g-galan-plus-jesse-mccor،-plus-future-projects