The Hut Project is an ongoing series of site-based activities that weaves together themes of sustainability, shelter, real estate, nature, and home. Starting last winter, I began building a series of simple structures from found and re-purposed materials. Each hut acts as a catalyst for local activities such as performance, video, collaboration, and community dialogue. The huts are containers—places where the concepts of dwelling, structure, and art object meet. They function as extravagant versions of the ‘emergency preparedness kit’, vodou ‘paquet congo’ that derive their power from the objects they contain, experiments in subsistence living, and sculptures that one can inhabit. Activities for The Hut Project will vary and change site depending on which hut they are connected to.
Hut #4: Bushwick, BrooklynOpen Hut Days!
September 18 & 19; 2-6pm
FREE
Come visit Hut #4, have tea, take home one of the seedlings growing around the hut. Other music and community discussion to be announced. Check the blog for details.
Where: The Border1 Grattan Street (corner of Bogart)
2nd Floor—Studio 221
L train to Morgan Avenue (exit Bogart Ave end)
Thanks: The Hut Project has been supported by an artist residency and additional production support at EMPAC - the Experimental Media and performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Other organizational supporters of The Hut Project include Arts in Bushwick, and EarthMatter NY.
For info about overnight stays in Hut #4, email: thinkdance@attglobal.net
Also coming up:
Dixon Place - jill sigman/thinkdance joined by musicians Kristin Norderval and Anne Hege
Crossing Boundaries: October 20, 7:30pm
www.dixonplace.org