Riverside's "Live Building"
December 15, 2006
The bulldozer's performance on Saturday night (12/16/2006)will be the grand finale of a 12 day recycling project conceived by Jason Middlebrook, a New York based artist. When the decision was reached that theWurms Janitorial Service building on Main Street in Riverside would be knocked down, the UCR/Artsblock was initially looking for an artist to do something to this building. Middlebrook saw an oppportunity to salvage something from the building. So far several unconventional benches and a table, each built and designed by an individual, have emerged. Basically the wood is coming from roof timbers.
"In this project at least there will be a memory, a sense that the building didn't just go into a landfill." says Middlebrook. These "historic" pieces are available for sale. Check them out and come Saturday evening, the at 7:30 to the grande finale as the bulldozer knocks down the building amid a crashing of falling bricks, stucco, wood and metal.
Riverside Redevelopment in collaboratin with UCR continues to improve the downdown pedestrian mall.
The bulldozer's performance on Saturday night (12/16/2006)will be the grand finale of a 12 day recycling project conceived by Jason Middlebrook, a New York based artist. When the decision was reached that theWurms Janitorial Service building on Main Street in Riverside would be knocked down, the UCR/Artsblock was initially looking for an artist to do something to this building. Middlebrook saw an oppportunity to salvage something from the building. So far several unconventional benches and a table, each built and designed by an individual, have emerged. Basically the wood is coming from roof timbers.
"In this project at least there will be a memory, a sense that the building didn't just go into a landfill." says Middlebrook. These "historic" pieces are available for sale. Check them out and come Saturday evening, the at 7:30 to the grande finale as the bulldozer knocks down the building amid a crashing of falling bricks, stucco, wood and metal.
Riverside Redevelopment in collaboratin with UCR continues to improve the downdown pedestrian mall.
posted by shirley harry at 8:29 AM
3 Comments:
What a creative idea!
Thanks for the news, this is a great gift for the holidays.
Do you need to have tickets?
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