CHARLES SIMONDS

Structures: Linear, circular and spiral dwellings. Becomes friendswith Sol LeWitt, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson. Exchangesprofessional roles for a day with President of Oberlin College, RobertFuller, as an experiment. Summer: sails up and down the coast ofMaine with Lucy Lippard. Does community work on the Lower EastSide. Becomes member of the board of the Lower East Side Coalitionfor Human Housing. Creates Playlot "La Placita" with the Associationof Community Service Centers and the Young NewYorkers.1974 Film of Dwellings by Rudy Burkhardt shown at the Museum ofModern Art, New York. Excavated and Inhabited Railroad TunnelRemains constructed at Artpark, Lewiston, New York.1975 Growth House constructed at Artpark, Lewiston, New York. Invitedto take part in the Whitney Biennial. Refuses to put work in Museumbut builds a dwelling in the street indicated by a sign in the museum.Has first one-person exhibition in Paris, curated by Daniel Abadie, atthe Centre National d'Art Contemporain. Works in the streets ofBelleville making dwellings. Meets Josefa, who is ten years old andbelieves in "little people" of her own and that food turns to poisonin their mouths if they don't share it. Three Peoples is published byIda Gianelli coinciding with an exhibition at Saman Gallery, Genoa.Works in streets of port area of Genoa making dwellings.1976 Invited for "Projects" series at the Museum of Modern Art, NewYork,where he creates Picaresque Landscape. Proposal for StanleyTankelMemorial Hanging Gardens. Invited to exhibit at the Venice Biennale.Works in the streets of Giudecca. Creates a Linear People dwelling atthe American Museum of Natural History, New York, as part of EarthDay festival.1977 Participates in a housing project called "City Project Cleveland:'Participates in Documenta 6. Goes to Berlin with DAAD (DeutscherAkademischer Austausch Dienst). Produces Circles and TowersGrowing series.1978 Visits Leningrad. Jurgen Schweinebraden organizes a clandestineindividual exhibition in East Berlin. Birthscape constructed for theexhibition Door beeldhouwers gemaakt (Made by Sculptors) atStedelijk Museum, Amsterdam: work shares room with GordonMatta-Ciark's and Simonds dedicates work to him upon learning ofhis death. Travels to Scotland, the Orkneys and Isle of Skye.1979 Cracking, a fiction by Lucy Lippard based on Simonds' work, ispublished by Walther Konig, Cologne. It is used as the catalogue for an 37