TREECYCLE – MulchFest

Be sure to RECYCLE your tree. saturday and sunday at different locations.

Williamsburg and Greenpoint: @ McCarren Park – Lorimer and Driggs

FIRST DAY OF INSTALLATION

Forests through Greenpoint’s industrial landscape.

Tree Collection has begun!

To have your tree collected by the UHP and used in the installation, join our mailing list at urbanhomesteadingproject.org

UHP FOREST to be funded on Kickstarter

We have a new Kickstarter page to collect donations for FOREST. We appreciate all donations, no matter how small!

Your money will be well spent!

The $500 budget for FOREST project is intended to buy recycled wood and screws from BUILD IT GREEN NY for the construction of tree stands, a 48-72 hour rental of a small truck to transport the trees to each location, mini – DV tapes for video documentation of the event, and for postcards to promote both the event and the subsequent exhibition of documentation and fictional videos in May 2010.
Make your donation HERE

FOREST is going mobile!!

FOREST will be on display in five different locations in Greenpoint over 48 hours on January 8th and 9th! Be sure to join our mailing list at urbanhomesteadingproject.org to receive a map and email alerts to find out where and when to see FOREST!

THE UHP NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!

Hello All,

The Urban Homesteading Project is installing a temporary art pieces in five different locations Greenpoint on January 8th, and 9th, 2010. We are still in the midst of location scouting, so the exact locations are not set in stone, but one thing is for sure: this is our largest, most complicated installation yet and we need help!

Here’s a description of the project:

FOREST is a large-scale, site-specific, interactive installation in which used Christmas trees, salvaged during the post-holiday season, will be arranged to mimic a natural forest in five different locations in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Set against such backdrops as the Manhattan skyline, the Newtown Creek and obscure corners of Greenpoint’s industrial zone, FOREST will provide a fictional space in which to explore new possibilities within an urban environment.

New Yorkers will be invited to bring used Christmas trees to each installation site, and to participate in the construction of the forest. A small group of local artists will be invited to create their own fictitious film and projects in each location. These projects, along with documentation from the installation will be displayed in a subsequent exhibition in May.

At the end of the installation/intervention, the mobile forest will be dismantled and the trees will be delivered to local parks to be converted to mulch. The wood used to make the tree stands will be donated to local artists in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.We are looking for volunteers to help us:

build tree stands

distribute promotional materials

help collect Christmas trees

help with the set-up and breakdown of the installation

shoot photo/video documentation

We need all the help we can get! Please contact Laura: elchipz@gmail.com or Francisca:franciscaporali@yahoo.com if you are interested in helping. Feel free to forward this along.

Also, visit urbanhomesteadingproject.org for more information.

FOREST date and location TBA

Hello all!

Right now we are negotiating a location for Forest. Please stay tuned for more details.