Saturday, June 27, 2009

BOTTLE S AND CONCRETE

KIELBASY II

WORKSHOP: BOTTLES AND CONCRETE
July 17-18-19 (WEATHER PERMITTING)

This will be a workshop, not an open-studio, focusing on wine-bottle masonry.

SCHEDULE:
Friday - Building forms. Assembling materials. Digging trenches for garden walls.
Saturday - Casting wine bottle side-walk, casting concrete garden wall.
Sunday - Barbecue, driving back to NYC (for those who need a ride.)

This workshop is open for 2-4 participants. There is room for two resident-participants, and two local participants. Please register via email before July 12. It is a work-exchange, free of charge.

THIS WORKSHOP MAY BE CANCELLED IF THERE IS HEAVY RAIN FORECAST.

INVITATION FOR KIELBASY II OPEN STUDIO
Kielbasy is inviting one resident to work at Kielbasy studio during the week of July 11-July 17.
You must take part in the "Bottles and Concrete" workshop.
If interested, please submit a description of the sort of work you would be executing during the week.
Transportation from NYC on July 10 or July 11 would be provided.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

KIELBASY 1 REPORTBACK

Kielbasy Residency #1 took place from May 23 until June 1, 2009.

Due to an emergency, Nader Hasan could not attend and remained, with a glowing heart, in Montreal. Thankfully, Adam Bobette did join us for the adventure.


He has this report to provide.

As I learned, you can make the cheapest kinds of Vodka good by running them through a Brita filter. I would drink it often, sometimes with food sometimes without. There are mountainous piles of mining rubble around Wilkes-Barre that you might confuse with unique geological events, there are also many cars and mini-malls. Some stores will only sell cases of beer not individual bottles. On a Tuesday night at dusk people let off fireworks for a good hour and a half, the kids next door delighted in screaming at every pop and crackle. Most days were spent drawing the peculiar topography of the folded Appalachians which then diverged into drawing Army ammunition magazines, some of them the size of small cities. The back yard is full of birds who come to visit Lex's grandmother's ghost and the one room up on the second floor where I worked would swell with yellow at sunset. I delighted in eating pizza and French fries because they are America, the family made sausage and sauerkraut was also excellent.

Messrs. Bobbette and Bhagat are submitting the outcome of Kielbasy 1 to On Site Review for their War & Architecture issue. (The deadline is July 1, so you still have two weeks to send them your proposal.)


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