beingthere.v1.squat.03

squat.03 is an intra-disciplinary project about being there | by laurie halsey brown | surrounding a developing relationship to place and a psychological, experiential relationship to space | first project in the beingthere series is based from a squat in Rotterdam and focuses on the squatting policies in the Netherlands as a form of adaptive re-use | interrelated responses take form simultaneously in private | public | virtual | physical locations | an integration of responses and [dis]locations: local/global/physical/virtual/private/public in relation to time [simultaniety] are made visible in the public realm to [re]create an experience of being there | launched september 2003 | key words: location, dislocation, space, place, hyper-place |

PRIVATE/LOCAL: squatted apartment in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
[next to Het Witte Dorp, designed by J.J.P. Oud in 1923]

Designing a Squat[kit] is an architect-in-residence project created for the squat.

PUBLIC/LOCAL: if you lived here, you'd be home now
video installation on two screens that create a corner in a window gallery | video follows someone moving through the squat with an emphasis on it’s corners/the architectural environment | the installation references it's public context by including advertising language such as: IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU’D BE HOME NOW as it responds to ideas surrounding squatting and 'home’ | designed for CBK window @ Nieuwe Binneweg 75, Rotterdam |

PHYSICAL/GLOBAL:Taking Possession of Space: a Transient Exhibition
is a curated project referencing artists based in Rotterdam whose work intersects art, architecture, design and social space: including Lara Almarcegui, Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Atelier Van Lieshout, Observatorium, Maureen Mooren & Daniel van der Velden for ROOM and Dré Wapenaar | the exhibition takes the form of a poster that international art institutions displayed | project includes a 'logue with material gathered on the artists, the history of squatting and it’s relationship to contemporary art/architectural practices with texts by Gil Doron/ARCHIS, Bartomeu Mari and others.poster displayed internationally |
'logue available:
   The Squat Doctors @ Mathenesserlaan 173 Rotterdam
   V2 [Organization for Unstable Media] Bookstore Rotterdam
Mobilivre-BookMobile Montreal, Canada
   and in the following exhibitions:
07.04 PrintROOM Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam, the Netherlands
09.04 Traveling Magazine Table Art in General, NYC

VIRTUAL/GLOBAL: LIVE!NUDE!SPACE!
inverts the language and strategies of a porn site, as it addresses the porn site user and witnessing intimacies within the private setting of the viewer's own home [computer] | it reflects a wide usage of the internet, in order to generate ‘excitement’ about ideas surrounding architecture as an experiential environment and psychological components of experiencing space | site includes a Vlog which is a narrative of the ‘intimate’ aspects of my experience with squatting and the development of a relationship to a space |
   06.03 test launch @ TENT. as the first net.art piece linked to their site: http://www.tentplaza.nl
    in conjunction with International Architecture Bienniale Rotterdam Rotterdam, The Netherlands
   08.03 site launch @ OrdRemote http://www.ORBremote.com Royal Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark
   01.04 inclusion in Rhizome.org ArtBase
   05.04 site presented @ SPARK! Design and Locality Conference: Oslo School of Architecture Oslo, Finland
   05.04 site included in Coded Cultures:Decoding Digital Culture Freiraum MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria
07.04 International Media Art Festival:Public_Media_Space Armenian Center Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia

LAURIE HALSEY BROWN: is an artist from New York presently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands | she creates architecturally focused projects about being there that investigate place and a psychological, experiential relationship to space | these projects articulate a developing relationship to an environment through a set of intra-disciplinary responses shown simultaneously such as a net.art piece, an installation and a curated exhibition | her architecturally focused projects have been shown both in the U.S. including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC and internationally | as an aspect of her intra-disciplinary practice, she has created numerous public interventions and media-based curatorial projects from 1997-2003 | 5 site-responsive installations and architectural interventions from 1999-2002 | 4 single-channel videos made between 1999-2003 have been screened at international festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2004 and articulate psychological movements of time | her studio is:http://www.movinginplace.net | lhb@movinginplace.net