COLAB Real Estate Show Restaged in New York City, Spring 2014
Becky Howland’s octopus installed at James Fuentes Gallery; a remnant of the original in the middle of a reconstruction of the painting she pasted on the outside of the evicted building.Ann Messner’s photograph of a veiled woman, and the original manifesto for the Real Estate Show, reproduced in mass editions for visitors to take.Christy Rupp’s “rat-gnawed loft lease” from the Real Estate Show.Robert Cooney’s machete painting, and Walter Robinson’s spray stencil of a brawler with a broken bottle.Silkscreen poster for Charlie Ahearn’s Super-8 feature film “Deadly Art of Survival” (1978), and a photo of the star, Nathan Ingram, in his karate school.Posters from the Real Estate ShowDrawing by Rebecca Howland recalls Elizabeth Mangum, murdered by police during an eviction, to whom the Real Estate Show was dedicated.Anonymous poster — the Black Cat Collective — tells how to turn your gas meter backwards.Paintings by Ilona Granet and Jane Dickson.