Read Catalog - Charles Simonds
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Niagara Gorge, La Placita, Park Model/Fantasy, Stanley Tankel Memorial, Growth House In these projects Simonds has sought to integrate the insights and values generated through his Dwellings and Cosmologies into full-scale social situations. These are community projects that involve participation. Rather than object or monumentoriented, these are process-oriented works that involve the structuring of real people. In his translation of concepts explored and developed in imaginary and thus controlled situations, to a real social context, Simonds achieves an actualization of possibilities formerly only theoretical. 62 Plate 24. Excavated and Inhabited Railroad Tunnel Remains and Ritual Cairns, Niagara Gorge, 1974. Installation at Artpark, Lewiston, New York.
Plate 25. Park-Project Uphill, La Placita, New York, 1973. The creation of a park-playlot sculpture from a vacant lot done in cooperation with the Lower East Side Coalition for Human Housing, the Association of Community Service Centers, and the Young New Yorkers. Plate 26. Park Model/Fantasy (No.2), 1974, detail. Clay and photographs; 50.8 x 76.2 em (2o x 30 in.). Collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The remains of a group of people the geometry of whose architecture was at a 45 ° angle to the axis of the city. Part of a semaphore village: three models presenting three different periods in its history. The side walls reflect the coordinates of New York and represent a through-the-block lot on East Second Street between Avenues B and C. The dwellings were built along a continuous line of habitation. Signals were sent from house to house by means of a tower, and each family was responsible for the maintenance of its fires. In this second model the dwellings and towers are abandoned, and only parts of a ritual place are still used.
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Niagara Gorge, La Placita, Park Model/Fantasy,<br />
Stanley Tankel Memorial, Growth House<br />
In these projects <strong>Simonds</strong> has sought to integrate the insights<br />
and values generated through his Dwellings and Cosmologies<br />
into full-scale social situations. These are community projects<br />
that involve participation. Rather than object or monumentoriented,<br />
these are process-oriented works that involve the<br />
structuring of real people. In his translation of concepts explored<br />
and developed in imaginary and thus controlled situations,<br />
to a real social context, <strong>Simonds</strong> achieves an actualization<br />
of possibilities formerly only theoretical.<br />
62<br />
Plate 24. Excavated and Inhabited Railroad Tunnel Remains<br />
and Ritual Cairns, Niagara Gorge, 1974. Installation<br />
at Artpark, Lewiston, New York.
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