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      • 1977  4 small fires
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    • 2015-4  the underground potato
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    • 2005  disarming images
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    • 1980  the real estate show
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    • 2012  mapping collective practice and            the real estate show
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    • 2011  towards a transfiguration of            the public imagination
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    • 2009  acts of eXchange
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    • 2007  outpost—a civic monument
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    • 2002  piecing the puzzle | Princeton Museum
    • 2000  UnNatural Couples
    • 1998  memory and its illusion
    • 1996  flood
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  • upcoming and recent
  • installation and sculpture
    • 2025-23
      • 2023-4 the atlases
    • 2023-20 re-workings
    • 2018-2010
      • 2018  the free library and other histories NYPL (2nd edition)
      • 2018  the free library and other histories
      • 2014-5  the underground potato
      • 2013  DuBois_the FBI Files
      • 2012-1998  dirge and ghostlimb
      • 2014-1996  small fragilities (and other retakes)
    • 2009-2005
      • 2009  who gets to speak?
      • 2008  the question
      • 2008-07  anatomy of an assassination
      • 2007-06  outpost
      • 2007-05  disasters of war
    • 2004-2001
      • 2004  dervish
      • 2004-03  oracle and ghost
      • 2003  here and there
      • 2002  . . . see no, hear no. . .
      • 2001  duel (simulation)
      • 2001  heart of the matter
      • 2004-01  and other
    • 2000-1996
      • 2000  ground zero and epicenter
      • 1999-97  submerged, trap and others
      • 1998-97  hearing field and cave
      • 1997-96  flood
    • 1996-1990
      • 1995  on the subject of fire and the internal
      • 1993  gallery installation | Fawbush NY
      • 1991  gallery installation | Fawbush NY
      • 1996-90  cookers, coolers and islands
      • 1995-94  others
    • 1989-1985
      • 1989  gallery installation | Shoshana Wayne LA
      • 1989  gallery installation | Fawbush NY
      • 1989-87  groupings and elements
      • 1985-87  lead and other objects
  • public places
    • 2023-2022 other strategies
      • 2022 body politic in 5 acts
    • 1998-1983  temporary projects
      • 1998-96  amniotic sea
      • 1990  bearing witness and nomad | City Hall NY
      • 1987  meteor | Times Square NY
      • 1986  whirlpool | Grey Art Gallery NYU
      • 1986  Utica NY | NGBK Berlin
      • 1985  island
      • 1983  incubator | Williamsburg Bridge NY
    • 1987-1980  street interventions
      • 1987  carts | Storefront for A&A
      • 1985-84  evesdroppers
      • 1981  intervene
      • 1981  night street tunnel | Paris
      • 1980  three stations
    • 1979-1977  performance and related activities
      • 2013  Petites Résistances
      • 1979  a monument
      • 1978  subway stories
      • 1977  subway story ad dis-placement
      • 1978  hitchhiking
      • 1978  stealing
      • 1978  performance with amplified typewriter
      • 1978-77  3 projects for 66 west broadway
      • 1977  4 small fires
      • 1979-77  and other
  • collective strategies
    • 2015-4  the underground potato
    • 2010  redact this!
    • 2008  26 hours in custody
    • 2007  petition to congress
    • 2006  if you see something, say something. . .
    • 2005  disarming images
    • 1984  caribbean buoy
    • 1980  the real estate show
  • tabloid projects and books
    • 2018  the free library and other histories
    • 2017  a love story
    • 2007-05  disasters of war
    • 2006-5  penitentiary
    • 2003  oracle
    • 1991  bearing witness book
  • proposals and other texts
    • 2025  reflections on an unsanctioned            performative practice responsive            to public space
    • 2024  the atlases
    • 2014  borderline states | apex unsolicited            program
    • 2012  mapping collective practice and            the real estate show
    • 2011  floating garden island—an alternative            to the prison barge
    • 2011  towards a transfiguration of            the public imagination
    • 2009  notes on amplified typing 1978
    • 2009  acts of eXchange
    • 2007  swords to plowshares | Dublin
    • 2007  caravan—an inverted world
    • 2007  architecture of resistance
    • 2007  outpost—a civic monument
    • 2007  secret pictures
    • 2005  penitentiary
    • 2005  penitentiary | the other text
    • 2005  the Rubicon is not an option | Rome
    • 2004  crossing the Rubicon | Rome
    • 2002  tales of fortune | Queens Plaza
    • 2002  the concrete texts | Creative Capital
    • 2002  waiting room | Grand Central Station
    • 2002  piecing the puzzle | Princeton Museum
    • 2000  UnNatural Couples
    • 1998  memory and its illusion
    • 1996  flood
    • 1996  three projects | Guggenheim proposal
    • 1995  beating heart
  • archive links
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  • bibliography
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1980 real estate show

The Real Estate Show  1980

 

COLAB Collaborative Projects.   

January 1, 1980

 

Occupation of vacant city owned building at 125 Delancey Street, with the intent of staging the group exhibition The Real Estate Show.  Documentation of break-in, city lock-out and press conference.

 

photo credit: Ann Messner, unless otherwise noted.

 

Statement of Intent Committee for the Real Estate Show  >

 

The Creative Time Summit 2013: Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st-Century City

 

Ann Messner: The Real Estate Show and Other Histories  >