Programming
Few Words About TARGET
10:51 PM
In this site-specific installation Douglas SCHOLES produces windows created from cast sheets of beeswax for a blighted house as an act of symbolic maintenance. From September 26th to October 12th, Douglas Scholes occupied Lefty, one of two blighted houses owned by The Imagination Station. He appropriated the space to make it his own: securing an electricity source by running an extension cord from the neighbour’s house, by nurturing relationships with the homeless who squat the Hotel adjacent to Lefty, by creating a secure safe space to store materials and equipment in the adjacent house, Righty, by creating the furniture to work on and finding a way to get and store water.
Satellite - Detroit
To start its 26th birthday with a bang, DARE-DARE is programming an ambitious project entitled SATELLITE. DARE-DARE will travel to Detroit and Tijuana for three-week “artist-organization-in-residencies” in each city.
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With these first phases realized, Scholes began his project by repairing and building frames for the window openings. The frames support the sheets of beeswax that act like windowpanes. The beeswax sheets were then cast, cut and fitted in the provisional casting studio set up in the former living room of Lefty. Twenty-seven sheets were produced and as of October 13th they were all installed in the façade windows of the house.
One of the most interesting, albeit somewhat invisible, aspects of this installation were the exchanges Scholes had with the general public. Through a genuine curiosity and fascination for the houses and for his work the public would not hesitate to ask questions to which Scholes would enthusiastically and unwaveringly respond.