Land Use Intervention Library

Conceived by Nora Almeida
Directed by Lucas Kane
Performed by Ray Achan, Nora Almeida, Christopher Bisram, Savitri d, andrea haenggi and Gerard Luna
Musical accompaniment by Martin Bisi, Lawry Zilmrah, Lindsay Tuttle, Bobby Bunny, Dom Cipolla
Videography by iki nakagawa
Drawings by Bill Zeman
In collaboration with Interference Archive
Made possible by the Puffin Foundation

ABOUT: In fall 2021, artist Nora Almeida worked with artists, musicians, ecologists, and activists to create a series of encounters at the Last Street End in Gowanus with access to the Gowanus canal. Material produced by participants and collaborators during each of the Last Street End encounters are integrated into the Land Use Intervention Library, whose boundaries and form are unstable.

The library existed temporarily as an installation and public performance accompanied by a live musical score on October 29, 2022 and permanently as a handmade catalog, an edited film, and collection of ephemera. The installation and performance of Land Use Intervention Library happened in Gowanus at two sites that are in the process of redeveloped after the passage of a 2021 municipal neighborhood rezoning plan. Participants including performers and audience members who engage with the Land Use Intervention Library in its iteration as a performance are incorporated into the Land Use Intervention Library film.

In 2023, the Land Use Intervention Library film will be screened for a public audience after the already altered landscape where it was performed is further transformed.