At 2655 Renfrew Street Vancouver, Canada, we (me and 6 other humans) are living in a tear-down house. So is everyone else on the block. We have a lease of 14+ months and then we will have to move. So will all the neighbours. All the houses on the street will be torn down and new developments will emerge.

What is happening in our cities is what is happening to ourselves.  Investigation of collective and individual tension, surfing through the global real estate. Investigation of survival style, play score scripting. Investigation of experimental adaptation, of alteration.. How can we alter each other. Flexibility and Mobility, metamorphosis. We want to establish roots but we keep getting uprooted. Investigation of transplantation experiments. Investigation of temporary communities.

Let’s build a temporary time machine to visit eternity together… temporarily. Eternal impermanence. To find new legends, new stories, new myths, new art forms, new dances. Perhaps it is a rediscovery.

Our house is a space where we have liberty to paint walls, make noise, and be creative, since no other tenants will ever live here. It is a gift of space for us and one that we want to share with our community. We want to make our house and yard a community and artistic space. To use the house as a canvas. Or theatre. Or laboratory, studio, atelier, incubator, think tank, holodeck, portal, vortex, whirlpool, digester, hotbed, fermentor, startup, petri dish, wind tunnel, cloud chamber. To show other ways of living and inhabiting space. To explore what it is to embrace our ephemeral existence on, within, and around these walls that will soon crumble. Much like our short existences that will also drift off into a place other than here, a time other than now. Or will they?

To turn our soon-to-be-demolished 14-to-18-month house into a live-in-installation, we invite creators to come paint, attach, drill, stitch, and stick upon our walls, halls, roofs and ceilings. We invite fools, movers, sound makers, kids, community and the in-betweeners to come and animate our space.

We are currently hosting artists to live with us. Our current Artist-In-Residenence is Tyrell Warren (Cortes Island).