At 2655 Renfrew Street Vancouver, Canada, we (5 other humans) are living in a tear down house. Along with all the other houses on the block. We have a lease of 16 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 what is happening to ourselves. Investigating 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. The investigation of transplantation experiments. Investigation of temporary communities.
What we propose:
Let’s build a temporary time machine To visit eternity together temporarily. Enteral 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 there are no other tenants who will 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 it?