THE R & D

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Current Artmaking Abode - LMCC Studios

Temporary Studio: 302 Eastern Parkway (the apartment) from January - July 2007
< Read about the move in April's New York Press >

Members:

< KATHERINE XU (click here) > < SHIRLEY HU > < LINDA KIM & CHRISTINA CROLL > < SOPHIE NOVACK >

< THE R&D IN ROCKAWAY (click here)> < coming soon: The LendingLibrary > < Christina's Comic Book on the Opera >

Located at 510B Waverly Avenue in Fort Green, Brooklyn. 646-552-6763

The R&D is in the same building as BRS Shipping Co., the studios of Alexander Reyna, Jacob Ouilette, and Melissa (we love robots). The R&D studio is a shared workspace for the artist Stephanie L Dedes (http://www.stephaniededes.com) and Mary T Mattingly. One of the two roof tops houses a rooftop garden we have been cultivating for two years, and the other is home to the R&R station, a mini-golf-from-trash game, and a testing ground for new topographies.

During the month of February 2006 the R & D underwent transformation. Pals Leslie and David started the process by donating their Saturday to the R&D Studio for a complete clean - top to bottom, mop, broom, and toothbrush. Zack took over from there, finishing off the walls, fixing the leak in the roof, installing the door and a new shelving system. The studio used to be solely for the D: sewing, building sculptures, and working on drawings, patterns, maps or schematics. The R and the photography took place at 302 Eastern Parkway, two blocks from the Brooklyn Museum (the place Mayor Rudi Juliani christened with infamy in the early 2000's), one block from the famous MLK chess park, four blocks from Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Park, and the main branch of the Brooklyn Library.

Stage 1: Before, During, and after the cleaning.

Stage 2: Zack's work.

Now, the R&D is a control center for love, genesis, imagination, inception, anxiety, the creation of the global uniform, new technologies, post-industrial sculptures, human conditioning, the new way, the new world order, new time, the future of the singularity, spatialexicon, editions, drawings, schematics, the hotel recording, the research and writing, the forming of protective-gear and protection in general, a map-making center, a photography and video thinkspace, the podcasting, the meetingplace for G-77 (http://www.theg77.org), sleep-accommodations for two, and more.

Christina, Linda, Shirley and I at work on the schematics and warsuits for the opera (April 06)

Hi and Low-tech weapons for the opera by Christina Croll, Linda Kim and I.

The Studio - August 2006