Design and Construction of a residential and performance space. With Future Projects, and Jesse McCormik
New York (USA) / 2020-21, built
From Domesticity to Hospitality is a renovation of a former hat factory in a late 19th Century building in Brooklyn. Countering the tendency towards normative domesticities characterizing the renovation of former industrial spaces in New York, this project keeps the impetus of earlier loft occupations by facilitating different forms of hospitality through artistic performances and other public events that the owner organizes, using his house as a stage. Key references for his work, from Vito Acconci and Sophie Calle, systematically disturbed the boundaries between domestic and public and challenged conventional ideologies of property and ownership. Our project learns from those references and other contemporary projects that subvert the hierarchies between host and guest, including Sandi Hilal’s project Living Room which, in her understanding, provide “a different sociopolitical meaning to the act of hospitality.”