House Where The Bottom Fell Out Begins July 1st
This press release announces a 2010 expansion of House Where The Bottom Fell Out into nine foreclosure-stricken cities across the western United States. The original Hawaiian work--a plantation-style house with the entire floor removed--becomes both model and accusation, a literal architecture of collapse in which no one can stand, enter, or pretend the structure is sound. By linking the project to foreclosure data, Williams converts the subprime mortgage crisis into sculptural grammar: the missing floor becomes the missing basis of economic and civic trust. The text's rhetoric is grand, bleak, and deliberately overdetermined, turning real estate catastrophe into a roving conceptual monument. It is less an announcement of objects than a proposal for ruins as public truth.
- DATE:
- July 1, 2010
- DOCUMENT TYPE:
- Essay / Critique
- NAMED ARTISTS / FIGURES:
- LG Williams; Tim Brown; Jaspreet Virk
- INSTITUTIONS / VENUES:
- The Estate of LG Williams; Telephonebooth; TheMoneyTimes.com; nine cities across the western United States; Happy Valley; Maui; Hawaii
- KEYWORDS:
- foreclosure as sculptural grammar; missing floor as missing trust; subprime crisis made monument; House Where Bottom Fell Out as architecture of collapse; roving conceptual ruin; economic catastrophe as public truth