Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Re:Construction
Tomorrow marks the start of my latest project, entitled "Re:Construction: A Visual Preservation of Houston's Innerloop." Through this project, I plan to utilize the City of Houston website - the Online Permits, specifically. From November 1st, 2007 until the onset of the installation of this project (predictably 6 months), I will check the City of Houston website for the latest Sold Permits added to the site that are specific to the demolition of residential properties within Houston's Innerloop. I will be recording not only the dates and locations of these properties' demolition, but additionally will be photographing each property. After 6 months of documentation, I will be able to provide a cumulative collection and/or record of the residential properties within Houston's Innerloop that are inevitably to be removed.
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I like this!
There is this memorial that is done in argentina where a procession walks into a neighborhood and does a roll call of everyone who was "disappeared" during the military dictatorship in the 1970's. Every time a name is read off, the whole group says "presente" (present) at the end of the roll call, the group says "presente. ahora y siempre." (present. now and always.)
I think this is a relevant idea to this, because the buildings disappearance changes the character of the city in a way that stays with us.
I think it would be interesting to present the work in some sort of way that memorializes the sites. there are all sorts of memorial rituals, of course, that's just one that i thought was very powerful. I am sure there are many visual ones as well. they would also do these mosaics on the sidewalks at sites where someone had lost their life due to political violence. They had the name of the person, the birth and death date and the circumstances under which they were killed. I have photos of some of these if you would want to see.
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