Pallet for Home

Photos from Gallery Exhibit 1, "Framing the Ideal City"

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

A participatory opening exhibition
On view June 11-27

What is your vision of an ideal city?

Pallet City’s design suggests various components that make up an ideal city: green space, sustainable building materials, cultural venues, urban farming. Surrounding Pallet City, the FIGMENT sculpture garden, and the newly preserved and redeveloping Governors Island, also pose innovative models for urban living.

On the Pallet City “exhibit” walls, found vintage frames contain once-blank Tyvek paper—implying connection between past and future, and the role of Governors Island as one of the few still-developing sites in New York City.

At FIGMENT opening weekend, visitors were invited to decorate these blank surfaces with their visions of an ideal city. People also chose to leave their marks on the gallery walls, turning this section into a participatory, guerrilla art experience.










The graffiti outside the frames was not originally intended, but turned out to be a nice addition, in terms of further enhancing the idea of a participatory gallery that is decorated and curated by the public. At opening weekend, viewers seemed to love making their marks on the pallets. People even wrote and drew things about what they'd like to see in their ideal city. We would later sand off some of this graffiti to prep the walls for future art exhibits, but wound up keeping some of the most pithy and artistic contributions from the public.

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