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Dwellings - Charles Simonds Dwellings - Charles Simonds
••Excavated and Inhabited Railroad Tunnel Remains", 1g74, Niagara Gorge, Art Park,Lewiston, New York«Growth House", detail I detail, 1g74, Art Park, Lewiston. New YorkII cree des cartes de tarot, puisant pour certaines son inspiration dans le travail realise au sein des mines d'argile de Sayreville, dansI'Etat du New Jersey. II filme Birth and LandscapeBodyDwelling.II fait Ia connaissance de Christo, Holly Solomon et Jeffrey Lew. II travaille au sein des lieux alternatifs situes aux numeros 98 et112 de Ia rue Greene Street en compagnie de George Trakis, Suzanne Harris, Keith Sonnier et Philip Glass.II debute Ia migration des habitations des Little People - les Dwellings - vers le nord, sur Ia rue Greene Street a New York. II voyage et serend a Stonehenge, Rome, Pompei, Herculanum et au Vesuve. II visite aussi Djerba, Mattmatta, Dugga, Sfax et Tozeur en Tunisie.Un vendredi apres-midi, il abandonne subitement l'enseignement. llloue une bicyclette de livraison pour transporter !'argile et commence acreer des Dwellings a temps complet dans les rues de New York, plus particulierement dans le quartier du Lower East Side.Joanne Maude Oakes et lui se separent ; il vend le logement situe au numero 131 de Ia rue Chrystie Street et emmenage dansIa 28e rue. II vit a Flower District, dans le quartier des fleuristes. II a pour voisins des groupes de rock installes en dessous et au-dessus de sonappartement, ces dits groupes etant diriges par son frere . II rencontre Lucy Lippard qui lui demande de lui faire decouvrir ses Dwellings.1972 II commence a vivre avec Lucy Lippard dans un logement situe sur Ia rue de Prince Street. A travers les yeux de Lucy il decouvreet observe !'evolution de l'univers artistique du feminismeII redige «Three Peoples, ethnographie fictive , et cree Life Architectures /Living Structures: Linear, Circular and Spiral Dwellings.II se lie d'amitie avec Sol Lewitt, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson et fait montre d'antagonisme a l'egard de Carl Andre et de ses briques.Le temps d'une journee, a titre d'experience, il echange ses fonctions avec celles de Robert Fuller, President de !'Oberlin College .Durant l'ete, il fait de Ia voile et parcourt Ia cote du Maine en compagnie de Lucy Lippard.II realise des travaux collectifs au cmur du quartier de Lower East Side et devient membre du Conseil de Ia Coalition pour !'Habitat humain.102
«Dwelling», 1975, PS. 1, Long Island City, New York «Dwelling», 1975, passage Julien Lacroix, Paris Charles Simonds avec I with Josefa, rue des Cascades, Paris, 1975Works at 98 Greene Street and 112 Greene Street alternative spaces with George Trakis, Suzanne Harris, Keith Sonnier, and Philip Glass.Begins migration of Little People dwellings northwards on Greene Street in New York. Travels to Stonehenge, Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum,and Vesuvius. Also travels to Djerba, Mattmatta, Dugga, Sfax, and Tozeur in Tunisia.Leaves teaching one Friday afternoon. Rents delivery bicycle to hold clay and begins making dwellings full time in streets ofNew York, concentrating on The Lower East Side. Separates from Joanne Maude Oakes.Sells 131 Chrystie Street and moves to 28th Street.Lives in the wholesale Flower District with rock bands above and below him, who were managed by his brother.Meets Lucy Lippard who asks for a tour of dwellings.1972 Begins living with Lucy Lippard on Prince Street. Watches the evolution of art-world feminism through Lucy's eyes.Writes "Three Peoples"; fictive ethnography and creates Life Architectures/Living Structures: Linear, Circular and Spiral Dwellings.Becomes friends with Sol Lewitt, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson and feels antagonism of Carl Andre and his bricks.Exchanges professional roles for a day with President of Oberlin College, Robert Fuller, as an experiment.Summer: Sails up and down the coast of Maine with Lucy Lippard.Does community work on The Lower East Side and becomes member of the Board of the Coalition for Human Housing.Creates Play!ot "La P!acita" with Association of Community Service Centers and the Young New Yorkers.1974 Film of Dwellings by Rudy Burkhardt shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Excavated and Inhabited Railroad Tunnel Remains constructed at Art Park, Lewiston, New York.103
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«Dwelling», 1975, PS. 1, Long Island City, New York «Dwelling», 1975, passage Julien Lacroix, Paris Charles Simonds avec I with Josefa, rue des Cascades, Paris, 1975Works at 98 Greene Street and 112 Greene Street alternative spaces with George Trakis, Suzanne Harris, Keith Sonnier, and Philip Glass.Begins migration of Little People dwellings northwards on Greene Street in New York. Travels to Stonehenge, Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum,and Vesuvius. Also travels to Djerba, Mattmatta, Dugga, Sfax, and Tozeur in Tunisia.Leaves teaching one Friday afternoon. Rents delivery bicycle to hold clay and begins making dwellings full time in streets ofNew York, concentrating on The Lower East Side. Separates from Joanne Maude Oakes.Sells 131 Chrystie Street and moves to 28th Street.Lives in the wholesale Flower District with rock bands above and below him, who were managed by his brother.Meets Lucy Lippard who asks for a tour of dwellings.1972 Begins living with Lucy Lippard on Prince Street. Watches the evolution of art-world feminism through Lucy's eyes.Writes "Three Peoples"; fictive ethnography and creates Life Architectures/Living Structures: Linear, Circular and Spiral Dwellings.Becomes friends with Sol Lewitt, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson and feels antagonism of Carl Andre and his bricks.Exchanges professional roles for a day with President of Oberlin College, Robert Fuller, as an experiment.Summer: Sails up and down the coast of Maine with Lucy Lippard.Does community work on The Lower East Side and becomes member of the Board of the Coalition for Human Housing.Creates Play!ot "La P!acita" with Association of Community Service Centers and the Young New Yorkers.1974 Film of Dwellings by Rudy Burkhardt shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Excavated and Inhabited Railroad Tunnel Remains constructed at Art Park, Lewiston, New York.103