house turned inside out - postponed!

I was getting all ready to post about the "house turned inside out" event, especially since Martin Papcun gave that really nice presentation at the last Pecha-kucha (it was hard to hear but the images were really fantastic and the jewelry was amazing) only to just get an email that it was being postponed until the 27th!

So mark your calendars appropriately and tell your friends the news otherwise they are going to show up Saturday and feel all stupid and you did NOTHING to prevent that!

House, turned inside out

3601 Siam Road, Cleveland

Opening October 27, 2009

4-9pm

Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative hosts Martin Papcun (Prague, Czech Republic) as he presents his newest large-scale, site-specific installation at 3601 Siam Road in Ohio City.

The artist, along with construction partners American Tank Fabricating and Affordable Demolition & Hauling Inc., has sliced into the walls of a house and turned them inside out to reveal the interior of the home. The installation, House, turned inside out, is a massive, yet intricate deconstruction. The installation will be open to the public for one month.

The project is funded by a grant from CEC ArtsLink New York.

For more info, contact:

Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative

820 Prospect Avenue

Cleveland, OH 44115

(216) 357-3434

www.cudc.kent.edu/shrink

HoJo Demo pix updated, added

I don't know what my fascination is with the demolition of this building. Mostly I remember it at as a landmark from my youth that acted as some sort of traveled distance marker which for the life of me I cannot recall for what. I do remember that the distinctive blue on the building and the vacant windows marked a blight that always made me realize how tenuous Cleveland's relationship between it's people and the land is.

Regardless, I have added more photos of the HoJo being demo'ed for everyone's amusement, especially my own.

Hopefully I won't be too sick to snap some photo's on the morrow. I'm thinking they will have the thing pretty much down by then.