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About this project

FOREST is a large-scale, site-specific, interactive installation in which used Christmas trees, salvaged during the post-holiday season, will be arranged to mimic a natural forest in five different locations in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Set against such backdrops as the Manhattan skyline, the Newtown Creek and obscure corners of Greenpoint’s industrial zone, FOREST will provide a fictional space in which to explore new possibilities within an urban environment.

New Yorkers will be invited to bring used Christmas trees to each installation site, and to participate in the construction of the forest. A small group of local artists will be invited to create their own fictitious film and projects in each location. These projects, along with documentation from the installation will be displayed in a subsequent exhibition in May.

At the end of the installation/intervention, the mobile forest will be dismantled and the trees will be delivered to local parks to be converted to mulch. The wood used to make the tree stands will be donated to local artists in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The $500 budget for this project is intended to buy recycled wood and screws from BUILD IT GREEN NY for the construction of tree stands, a 48-72 hour rental of a small truck to transport the trees to each location, mini - DV tapes for video documentation of the event and for postcards to promote both the event and the subsequent exhibition of documentation and fictional videos in May 2010.
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Project location: New York, NY

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The Urban Homesteading Project

The Urban Homesteading Project builds temporary dwelligs and living solutions in public space out of discarded, donated and exchanged materials, as a means to create positive social interactions within a community.

By making representative living situations and inviting community members to participate in these fictional spaces, we transform the apparent physical configuration of a space and its social and symbolic dimensions.

Through collectively observing the movement of the street, the manifestations of change in a neighborhood and the flow of people, we unfold the multiple layers of a place. Each homestead is an investigation of community, available resources and models of sociability in the contemporary city.

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