beyond seasonal

what our door bell will look like!

Of course we're not the only one,

thankfully

there will be more to come.

thank you

8 days to go!!

We've reached 96% and there are so many exciting things happening behind the scenes!! We can't wait to close the fund-raising phase (thank you backers) and go public!

* Thanks to Dmitry Vilensky

Vacant NL, Were Architecture Meet Ideas, Ritveld Landscape, Venice Architecture Binnale 2010 .

Unoccupied buldings from the 17th 18th 19th 20th and 21st centuries.

Bruce Neuman's work, Bad Boy Good Boy, 1985 as presented in Chambers d'amis exhibition (1986)

This Living Room will be a physical meeting place for artists, thinkers and performers in the neighborhood of Bos en Lommer, Amsterdam. It will be a temporary space existing for a period of three months hosting contemporary art exhibitions, discursive events, music performances and many other cultural activities.

Stay Tuned!

One fifth!!

After three days of funding drive, The Living Room is beginning to make the transition from a dream we shared with our friends, to a reality we can share with everyone! Thank you so much, all of you who are helping bring The Living Room into existence!

This picture was shot in Liverpool During a visit in this year edition of the City's Biennale.

There are many kinds of Living Rooms out there....

in the window

there's a fresh wind blowin'
(friendo)
Can you hear what it sayS,
I can'T
but that doesn't stop me from listenin'

It's been a hard day's night

Brainstorm weekend and my knees are weak

Space is precarious

Just like in our own homes, The Living Room will be a space for congregation, for debate and inspiration created by its inhabitants; a place for emerging artists to develop their ideas, for established thinkers to meet their audience and for the visitor to engage in a truly contemporary experience.

The Living Room [secretly] goes public!!

Here it is!

On 12:01 the 1st of October 2010, I'm secretly, publicly bringing the Living Room into existence.  We're currently in the middle of an exciting weekend, preparing the program, budgets, funding applications, strategy and concept for the Living Room!!

Just to bring those of you out there reading this up to date, The Living Room is a new temporary modular art space in Amsterdam, born out of our desire to create.  Create together, and provide a place for those who create well to have an audience.  There will be a program of exhibitions, performances and discourse during the coming four months which will appear here in all shapes and forms.

To evoke a bit the sphere of the living room, I'd like to leave you with a few impressions. Enjoy!!

Living Room theater from Southington CT, USA


and
Jæ with Viljam Nybacka in Amsterdam, NL


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Gordon Matta-Clark, Food, NYC 1971