About this project
DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY, SUPERFRONT LA’s first exhibit of 2011, considers Detroit both as a specific city and as a set of circumstances. Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study invites not so much a comparison of Detroit and Brooklyn but a calculated misreading. How and where might the logics or circumstances of Detroit operate in Brooklyn? At what scale of intervention or performance could Detroit and Brooklyn become indistinguishable?
This exhibit investigates Detroit as not only a given typology – the shrinking city, abandoned city, reclaimed city – but also as an everyday environment, as a specific place with specific moments. Through cartography, video, architectural proposals, photography, painting and other media, DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY explores urban typology and local specificity. From intimately personal representations of Detroit to abstract mappings or urban-scale analogies, the exhibit produces a case study (an empirical inquiry that investigates a phenomenon within its real-life context) of a Detroit that may or may not exist.
DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY opens at SUPERFRONT LA on January 20, 2011 and remain on view through May 27.
Exhibitors include: Dana Bell, Brent Birnbaum, Berenika Boberska, Brennan Buck, Lynn Cazabon, Sara Conde, Philip Dembinski, Jill Desimini, Ellen E. Donnelly, David Freeland, David Karle, Erin Kasimow, Amanda Matles, Blake Morris, Juan Alberto Negroni, Paper Tiger TV, Kaleena Quinn, Jon Stevens, Brett Van Aalsburg, Anusha Venkataraman, Margi Weir, Audra Wolowiec.
DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY is curated by Chloë Bass + Mitch McEwen.
Join SUPERFRONT as we partner with Detroit's LOVELAND project to bring the exhibit from Los Angeles to Detroit, itself. SUPERFRONT has also "inch-vested" a 5" x 5" square from LOVELAND micro-real estate, where we will be constructing a winning project selected by the exhibition's judging panel. That project will be unveiled as part of the Detroit viewing in early summer 2011.
Your donation will go towards exhibition shipping and printing costs, prize money for winning entries in our 5" x 5" competition, the construction budget for the 5" x 5" built project, installation and mounting of the exhibition, gallery maintenance costs, curatorial expenses, and a public opening reception -- in other words, just the beginning of what we'll need to bring our investigations from the East Coast to the West Coast, with a solid stop in the middle.
(Image: Freeland Buck, 2010, Superdivision Detroit, courtesy of David Freeland and Brennan Buck)
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Acknowledgment on the exhibit page (losangeles.superfront.org/2011/01/detroit-a-brooklyn-case-study/).
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A Brooklyn postcard from Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study curators Chloë Bass + Mitch McEwen, plus acknowledgment on the exhibit page.
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Special thanks in the DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY limited edition catalog, plus acknowledgment on the exhibit page.
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Credit as a sponsor on all exhibit marketing materials, plus a Brooklyn postcard and a special thanks in the DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY limited edition catalog.
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All of the above, plus a free copy of the DETROIT: A BROOKLYN CASE STUDY limited edition catalog signed by curators Chloë Bass + Mitch McEwen.
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SUPERFRONT is a gallery and project space promoting experiments in architecture. SUPERFRONT’s mission is to support, promote, and produce radically contemporary architecture, while fostering creative interdisciplinary exchange. This mission is achieved through exhibits, publications, panels, and projects that, while focused on architecture, may also concern art, performance, media and social science. Since January 2008, SUPERFRONT has invited students, emerging architects, designers, visual artists, and performance artists to engage in a public forum that raises awareness of contemporary architectural practice and theory.
