About this project
Trailer Park is being honored by being on exhibition in July during Terrafarm at Terreform ONE: http://www.terreform.org/farm_team.html where it will be the focus of a lecture on unique ways to bring nature into the urban environment!
This project has been created, but due to some vandalism has suffered severe damage. Broken glass led to leaks from particularly brutal winter storms in NY last winter. This project, a favorite of kids, city-living nature lovers and shocked and amazed pedestrians, is in dire shape and needs to be repaired and partially renovated, as well as being upgraded to 100% solar power.
Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park is a portable, natural, public park housed inside an 18' x 8’ x 7’ re-purposed mobile travel trailer. The interior is fully planted, designed, and is a "real" park. Brick planter beds containing shrubs, rocks, trees and plants are complimented by masonry laid in the same tradition as public parks. Ivy brushes up against the walls where a self-contained naturalistic stone waterfall provides the sound of trickling water in summer and an iced wonderland in the winter. Concrete and wooden benches invite visitors to rest and enjoy the park view. Skylights provide rays of sunlight beaming in, kissing the interior.
Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park is a site of paradox. By combining the destination and the means to get there, with Trailer Park you walk inside to go outside. If you cannot go to the park, the park can go to you! Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park is designed specifically for use in urban environments as a work of public art, a teaching lab for students and an actual, usable public park, where access to nature is limited. The beauty of Trailer Park is that it can "park" anywhere!
I am so happy to announce that in tandem with the Terrefarm, I will be opening is on July 17th at SUPERFRONT http://newyork.superfront.org/2010/06/artists-who-play-well/ , I really hope all local supporters can come out and say hi so I can thank you in person! Also this month is my project at Smack Mellon taking place from July 10-July 17th! http://smackmellon.org/index.php/exhibitions/current/
I hope everyone can help support this great and vibrant green project. Summer is the time for parks!
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on July 30, 2010.
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A full color glossy post card of Trailer Park, A Utopia on Wheels will roll right into your heart and mailbox, thanking you for your contribution!
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A limited edition, custom-made, full color glossy postcard, signed by the artist will roll right into your heart and mailbox. This edition will be made to accommodate the exact number of contributors at this level!
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An 8” x 10” full color glossy photo print of Trailer Park, A Utopia on Wheels will be signed to you, thanking you for your contribution. Frame-ready, this edition will be numbered and limited to the number of contributors.
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At this support level, a 100 page, limited-edition, full color glossy coffee table book featuring the artist’s work as well as this project will be inscribed to you by the artist thanking you for your contribution to this project! Edition of 50.
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A beautiful, limited-edition full color, double offset Trailer Park Print on cotton paper, 20” x 30”, Frame ready, and signed by the artist, dedicated to you, thanking you for your contribution! Edition of 50.
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At this level, you will receive both the book and the double-offset print, both limited editions, signed by the artist.
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A contributor at this level will receive ALL of the previous rewards, and a written dedication to you by the artist thanking you for your participation and support of this project! These rewards will be sent to you in a handsome portfolio, containing all of the rewards as one total collection.
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For this level of contribution, you will receive ALL of the previous rewards & a sumptuous luncheon INSIDE the Trailer Park as it parks in Brooklyn will be lovingly prepared for you to enjoy with the artist or a friend. As you sip wine and feast, the sounds of the trickling waterfall and the incredible smell of the foliage will tickle your senses and delight you with a one of a kind summer experience!
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Any contributor at this level is a TRUE patron of the arts. Patrons at this level will receive all of the previous rewards except the luncheon. Instead, this level will allow you the one of a kind experience of having a delectable dinner for you and a guest as you are pulled over the Williamsburg Bridge with the stunning New York City skyline in full dazzling effect as your view! The Trailer Park is 100% street legal and as such, you may wine and dine inside it, while be driven around like Art Royalty for this truly one of a kind New York art experience.
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This platinum level contribution will receive all of the previous rewards. In addition to all of the art and book rewards in the portfolio collection, the luncheon may be used or given as a gift- and in tandem with the dinner, your name will be engraved on a brushed steel plate and permanently affixed to Trailer Park’s interior, “wall of fame”, for all time.
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Kim Holleman attended The Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art in New York and the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Holland.
Because of Kim’s unique blending of art, architecture and engineering, she has gained recognition across disciplines. She is a Ted.com Fellowship finalist for 2010 and is a current semi-finalist in the international One Prize competition, a call for proposals regarding sustainable urban practices, sponsored by Terreform ONE, where she is also speaking in July as a visiting artist lecturer for Terrefarm, an urban laboratory focused on interdisciplinary public works projects.
Kim’s first solo show in NY: Law of the Land at Black and White Gallery was chosen Best In Show in the Village Voice (2008) and was later featured again in the arts section by Alan Gilbert.
The opening event for Holleman’s second solo show in NY, Circa: 2012 at White Box Chelsea (2008), recorded 1,000 people in attendance and was selected by Papermag as the Word of Mouth show along with After Nature at The New Museum for Contemporary Art.
