Interesting related art projects that interrogate, occupy, play with themes of housing, urban renewal, land use and the behaviour of cities.
AUSTRALIA
Yurt Empire is a rogue housing project and site based encounter that emerged in Sydney in 2011 until 2014.
The Homesickness Project by Elizabeth Woods and Kevin Leong
Catabolic House by D.V Rodgers
Landed by Ian Strange
The House by Triage Live Art
USA
The Faces of Real Estate by Phil Jones This Guy Spent The Last Month Dressing Up Like Local Realtors And Pasting Himself Over Their Bench Ads
The Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House A diverse group of Los Angeles artists create new works exploring, celebrating, and dramatizing the Arts and Crafts masterpiece The Gamble House by architects Greene & Greene.
Detroit Unreal Estate Agency The agency is aimed at new types of urban practices: architecturally, artistically, institutionally, everyday life in Detroit.
The Heidelberg Project Abandoned houses and discard contents remade into Art over two blocks in Detroit, since 1996.
This is the Public Domain is an effort to create a permanent international commons by the artist Amy Balkin.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation Dedicated to the increase and diffusion of information about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.
The Power House is a work by Design99 in Detroit whose house-based engagements deal with the aesthetics of everyday life and the integration of art and design into rethinking and rebuilding neighborhoods.
Dorchester Projects explores the ways thoughtful spaces committed to art, public education, design, and advocacy can contribute to the cultural and economic life of neighbourhoods on the southside of Chicago. By Theaster Gates.
The Real Estate Show was the illegal exhibition in a city-owned building on Delancey Street NYC that gave birth to ABC No Rio when, as a compromise, a city agency gave the artists control of nearby 156 Rivington Street.
Project Row houses is a unique experiment in activating the intersections between art, historic preservation, affordable and innovative housing, community relations and development, neighborhood revitalization, and human empowerment. Texas, USA.
If you Lived here was a project by Martha Rosler comprising three exhibitions on housing, homelessness, and architectural planning with work by artists, filmmakers, homeless people, squatters, poets, writers, community groups, schoolchildren, and others in NYC 1989.