Curation
A new exhibition : Layered SPURA
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Buscada @ Creative Time’s Living As Form / MARKET
Please join us on October 7, 8 & 16th at our residency at Creative Time’s Living As Form, “a vast collection of documentation of 100 socially engaged projects from the last twenty years and from locations around the globe.”
Our residency features a new iteration of our ongoing work on the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), in collaboration with Temporary Services’ MARKET.
More on the Buscada SPURA project
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You may know SPURA as the parking lots along Delancey Street. More than forty years ago, the area was razed for “slum clearance” and few renewal projects have been so contested. Very few of the originally-planned buildings were ever built, and many people were once displaced from the site, some now live on it, and many people live in the blocks around it. Many different communities claim SPURA, and imagine different futures for it.
Our work builds on Gabrielle’s City Studio class at the New School, and considers the past, present and future of this contested site, collaborating with community organizations, and using a visual urbanist approach to create a series of annual exhibitions to create space for dialogue.
On October 7th, 8th and 16th, in residence at MARKET, we continue to present and explore the multiple stories of SPURA. Please join us, and students from four years of City Studio us to tell your own SPURA stories, to talk with others at our booth, and to discuss the future of the neighborhood.
We will also be hosting a walking tour, on October 8th at 2pm, in collaboration with Dutch artists Bik Van der Pol, to explore the layered nature of SPURA, the hidden and intersecting voices behind the often perplexing physical, political and personal landscape of SPURA.
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We hope to see you at Living As Form on October 7th, 8th or 16th!
When:
Friday, October 7, Saturday October 8, Sunday October 16th, 12-8pm
Special guided tour on the complexities of SPURA : October 8, 2pm
Where :
the historic Essex Street Market, SE corner of Essex & Delancey Streets
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Join us for a pop-up exhibition of the Triangle Fire Open Archive!
Join us this Wednesday, March 16th, from 3-7pm, for a pop-up exhibition of the Triangle Fire Open Archive at the Brooklyn Historical Society!
The Triangle Fire Open Archive – a collaboration between Buscada and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition – is an online, participatory archive of community contributed stories, images and documents. Each of these objects tell a piece of the history and impact of the infamous fire and its critical relevance for today’s pressing questions about labor rights and safety from New York City to Wisconsin to Bangladesh.
Join us for this rare opportunity to see some of the pictures, documents and objects from the Triangle Fire Open Archive in person!
The exhibition, honoring the Triangle fire’s centennial on March 25, will include items from BHS’ archival collections, rare documents from Our Lady of Pompei church (from the Center for Migration Studies), creations by performance artist LuLu LoLo, personal photographs, and much more.
We encourage you to bring in your own items to share - stories, photos, memorabilia, etc. about the Triangle Fire, or any kind of labor or women’s activism over the last 100 years. We will create digital photographs of your items and upload them to the Triangle Fire Open Archive, for the world to see. This event is open to the public and is free with museum admission.
The Triangle Fire Open Archive exhibition
Wednesday March 16, 3-7pm
The Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Trains :
2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall, the A, C, F to Jay St/Borough Hall, or M, R to Court St.
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Building the Triangle Fire Open Archive
This fall, we’ve been developing an exciting new collaborative curatorial project, working with the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and Ruth Sergel. In honor of the upcoming centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 2011, we’ve developed and designed the Triangle Fire Open Archive, a curated online archive of community-created objects and stories. We’re encouraging people to submit objects culled from personal & public collections, and to use these objects to tell their own stories relating to the history of the Fire, or to the labor, immigration and gendered issues of the Fire that are still critical and resonant today.
Through the collaborative curation of the Open Archive, we’ll be able to see objects, and read narratives, never before seen together.
On Monday December 13, we had our first evening of collecting objects, working with Lucy Oakley and Marci Reaven’s class at NYU, who have recently curated the soon-to-open Grey Art Gallery exhibition, “Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”.
The students did a phenomenal job of writing new reflections on their favorite objects they’ve found in researching the Triangle Fire – some drawn from public collections (as above, a portion of an image from the Kheel Center), and some drawn from their own family albums. Many contributed these objects (in digital form) to the Open Archive, and we’re thrilled to have started down the path building the Triangle Fire Open Archive with them.
We look forward to many more people getting involved, contributing objects, and telling stories through the Open Archive in the months to come – either through our online tool or at our open public events, when we’ll help photograph and digitize people’s objects.
All the digital material collected will be donated and archived by the Kheel Center which hosts the preeminent website on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The site will go live in January of 2011 – we’ll keep you posted!
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