“The Real Estate Show, What Next: 2014” Exhibition
Cuchifritos
This event has ended.
…This is a short-term occupation of vacant city-managed property.
Manifesto or Statement of Intent
James Fuentes, Cuchifritos and ABC NO RIO present their forthcoming exhibition which will revisit a seminal exhibition called The Real Estate Show, which took place in 1980 at 123 Delancey Street. Organized by Colab, a group comprised of artists and activists to collectively generate exhibition opportunities, funding and resources for artists, The Real Estate Show took place in a city owned building that the organizers and artists utilized without permission from the city. The exhibition aimed to deal with what they saw as a real estate crisis in New York City for the non-wealthy, the group dedicated the exhibition to Elizabeth Mangum, an African American woman killed by police and marshals as she resisted eviction in Flatbush.
The sequence of events were as follows.
Christmas Eve, 1979; The lock was broken.
December 30, 31, 1979; installed the show.
Evening December 31, 1979; celebrated the opening of the show.
January 2nd, 1980; artists discovered the space had been padlocked by The New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development.
Many of the works form the original exhibition will be presented, as will documentation and ephemera related to The Real Estate Show.
Media
Schedule
from April 19, 2014 to May 18, 2014
Artist(s)
Anonymous, Andy Baird, Jim Casabere, Robert Cooney, Mitch Corber, Eva DeCarlo, Jan Dickson, Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Bobby G, Matthew Geller, Mike Glier, Ilona Granet, John Halpern, Jenny Holzer, Becky Howland, Peggy Katz, Jon Keller, Christof Kohlhofer, Gregory Lehmann, Aline Mare, Ann Messner, Scott Miller, Richard Mock, Peter Moennig, Alan Moore, John Morton, Joseph Nechvatal, Tom Otterness, Cara Perlman, Scott Pfaffman, Walter Robinson, Rhonda Ronin and the Suffolk Street Wildlife Refuge, Christy Rupp, Sandee Seymour, Teri Slotkin, John T. Spencer, Harry Spitz, Arnold Wechsler, Robin Winters, Robert Montoya, John Alex, Edit Deak, Jules Phillipe, Warren Tanner, Fred Krughoff et al.