Heterotopias
What are some examples of contemporary heterotopias?
– prison, cemetary, garden, museum, library, boat (cruise ship…)
More specific examples in NYC?
Some intentional heterotopias, placemaking, placekeeping:
// Sasha Wortzel’s This is An Address
https://fieldofvision.org/this-is-an-address
or
With audio description by Tourmaline:
https://fieldofvision.org/this-is-an-address-audio-description-tourmaline
In this meditation on community, gentrification, and erasure, Stonewall veteran and trans activist Sylvia Rivera takes up residency on the Hudson River piers with a group of HIV-positive New Yorkers, as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.
We Came To Sweat, a film directed by Sasha Wortzel and Kate Kunath about Starlite Lounge
A few images and related media from Douglas Crimp’s “Action Around the Edges”
Gordon Matta-Clark, Day’s End