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7 May 2013. New Museum colonizes funded by Goldman-Sachs and Brookfield Properties: http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/61099 5 May 2013. Add responses. 3 May 2013 Cryptome Artworks Censored by The New Museum
Cryptome's artworks, questioning The New Museum's neglect of city dwellers, mounted at the Bowery Mission have been removed due to a New Museum takedown demand to the Mission. The artwork series, titled Party Wall, presented a dialogue between the Bowery Mission and New Museum posing questions of potential cooperation: Have You Been Colonized? What's Your Worth? Are You Being Curated? Have You Been Loitering? Are You Hungry? Where Will You Sleep? Will You Go Underground? The works, installed on April 30 (below) and removed on May 2, may be seen online here: http://www.cryptome.org/partywall/index.html The Cryptome series was installed for a street festival along the Bowery on May 4, but not affiliated with "IDEAS CITY-Untapped Capital" sponsored by The New Museum and funded by Goldman Sachs and Brookfield Properties (owner of Zuccotti Park).
Deborah Natsios
John Young is currently architect for the Bowery Mission for underground vault repairs (1) (2) which served as the parallel initiative of architect Deborah Natsios to more broadly research the Mission's history and the Bowery neighborhood as presented in the museum-censored panels.
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 19:36:14 -0400 To: Michael Sorkin <mdsorkin[at]gmail.com> From: Deborah Natsios <dn[at]pipeline.com> Subject: Re: New Museum Has Cryptome Artworks Censored from Bowery Cc: Joan Copjec <joancopjec[at]hotmail.com>, Aleksandra Wagner <WagnerA1[at]newschool.edu>, Joseph Grima <grima[at]domusweb.it>, 'John Cook' <john[at]gawker.com>, William Menking <wmenking[at]archpaper.com>, Michael Kimmelman <mikimm[at]nytimes.com>, Paul Goldberger <paul[at]paulgoldberger.com>, "Pearson, Clifford" <Clifford_Pearson[at]mcgraw-hill.com>, Alexandra Lange <alexandra.lange[at]gmail.com>, John Palattella <john[at]thenation.com> Here is background on how the Bowery Mission installation came about
The installation on April 30, 2013, removed on May 2, 2013.
This Cryptome/Deborah Natsios panel was installed on the Bowery Mission roof stair bulkhead facing the New Museum on April 30, 2013. It is not known if it remains.
This Cryptome/Deborah Natsios panel remained on the Bowery Mission facade on May 3, 2013, installed August, 2012:
Online version: http://cryptome.org/peregrine/index.html
More on the architecture of Cryptome-Deborah Natsios John Young:
http://www.domusweb.it/en/interview/open-source-design-01-the-architects-
http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2011/07/08/project-heracles-200-postcards- http://bigstory.ap.org/article/older-quieter-wikileaks-cryptome-perseveres http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome http://www.natsios-young.com/nya-bib.htm Deborah Natsios has long created Cryptome architectural and critical visual essays: Cryptome/Cartome Essays, Deborah Natsios and John Young Bowery Mission Sidewalk Vaults http://cryptome.org/peregrine/index.html Cryptome project tracking the political geography of the Cold War as precursor to current national security frameworks: L'Empire des Oiseaux: Schoolgirl Quarantines from Dalat to the Rue Alexandre de Rhodes http://cryptome.org/quarantine/index.html Greece: Irredenta in the Eurozone http://cryptome.org/irredenta/index.html Cryptome Tracks the NYPD Ring of Steel http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/ring-of-steel/ring-of-steel-00.htm Common Lines of Flight Towards the Open City, The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, publication February 2012 http://www.amazon.com/SAGE-Handbook-Architectural-Theory/dp/1412946131 http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/common-lines/common-lines.htm
New York VOIR DIRE: Interrogating the Juridical City State of
Exception
Initial version presented 17 April 2010, during panel: "Sovereign spaces:
security after the war on terror" http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/Natsios-Voir-Dire.pdf (3.4MB)
Watchlisting the Diaspora http://www.cccb.org/en/curs_o_conferencia-targeted_publics-25780 Expanded and to be published as:
The Geographer in Jules Romains' 'Donogoo Tonka or the Miracles of Science:
A Cinematographic Tale' http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/Natsios-Donogoo-Tonka.pdf
Towards a New Blast Zone Paper presented 18 May 2007, at the symposium “Architectures of Fear: Terrorism and the Future of Urbanism in the West”, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona. http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/blast-zone/Towards-a-New-Blast-Zone.pdf
National Security Sprawl http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/Natsios-NSS.htm
Jerusalem Sky http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/jerusalem-sky/introduction.htm
Parallel Atlas: 38°N http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/parallel-atlas/dmz-intro.htm
Reversing the Panopticon http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/reverse-panopticon.htm
Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell http://www.cryptome.org/cartome/homeland.htm
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 18:56:51 -0400 Dear Corinne, dear Richard — It was lovely to see the both of you yesterday. I hear the panel apparently went over pretty well, and I'm delighted to have played some small part in helping that happen. Unfortunately, there's something distinctly less happy I need to ask you about at the moment. Via Facebook, I've just heard that someone acting in the name of the New Museum apparently asked that some posters placed on the Bowery by the Cryptome folks be removed. I have seen the posters in question, and find that while the questions they ask are surely uncomfortable, there is nothing in them that is not well within the bounds of valid and even necessary critical discourse. If it does turn out to have been the case that someone acting in an official capacity asked for their removal, I would of course be hugely disturbed — such an act would, in my view, violate every principle of respectful dialogue and engagement the event is built upon, and which my contributions have been predicated upon. Again, should this turn out to be the case, I'm afraid I would have to respectfully decline any further involvement in this or any New Museum event. Can I ask you to get to the bottom of this, and let me know what, in your view, actually happened here? I understand that my involvement is the very smallest and least important part of Idea City, but even so I could not in good conscience continue to lend my name and energy to the event if it was involved in an act which contravenes everything I believe in. I am hoping against hope that you'll have good news for me. Fondly,
Adam Greenfield
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 22:52:58 -0400 It looked provocative. The whole thing reminds me of what started long ago, well before New Museum was there. I worked at Common Ground Community in 2003, administering the First Step Housing design competition for the Andrews House. It was distinctly appalling that a new bar called MISSION opportunistically opened up next door to the actual Bowery Mission. And so it continues. Sorry / enraged to hear about your censorship, but I'm not surprised, given how safe - friendly - quirky - sanitized the Ideas City event is. In Solidarity Susan SUrface
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