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Projects 2010 
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An Ordinall of Alchimy In 2009, Mark Dion, Robert Williams, and their students at the Pennsylvania artists’ colony Mildred’s Lane used Cabinet’s invitation as an opportunity to explore the theme of alchemical transformation. “An Ordinall of Alchimy” comprises the objects they assembled, a collection keyed to the seven basic processes of practical alchemy: Calcination, Fixation, Solution, Distillation, Sublimation, Separation, and Projection. |
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The Emergent Event This week long workshop will employ models of emergence to produce a situation/event that will unfold on the OPENING DAY Mildred's Lane. This is an intensive seminar in workstyles, a labor/life/research paradigm we propose for contemporary art practice. Following the methodologies of a non-deterministic approach to the situation/event we will attempt to create an unusually profound shared experience for and with all who come to Opening Day, Saturday May 29th, 2010. |
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Pondhouse Springhouse Land and Bee As a site Mildred's Lane is rich in resources such as streams, stone quarry, woodland fields and gardens. Extensively, this session will include a diverse gathering of cultural professionals; Scientists, Architects, Artists, Farmers, Builders, Naturalists, Writers and Other Environmental Professionals, who will lead workshops, lectures and demonstrations. Some of the topics we will investigate are beekeeping, pond design, surveying, and eco-activism. Radical Apiary is a new project that we will begin in the early part of this session. Artists, Scientists, Local beekeepers and other professionals will discourse and build a bee yard in Mildred's Garden that will be a permanent experiment in collaboration with a most revered species, the Honey Bee. |
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Town & Country This session's focuses on the complex relationship between the city and the countryside by investigating the place the rural world occupies in the projections, fantasies, economy, and antagonism of the cosmopolitan set. This dialectic is responsible for a cultural production as diverse as the invention of Adirondack style, the formation of 60's communes. "Urban Cowboy" and the new urban garden movement. |
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R.21c. Phase III is the third of a three-phase research project exploring new spaces of cultural production. Our global forms of capital are evolving very quickly, new forms of subjectivity are emerging, and this project is devoted to experimentation in various forms of exchange and collaboration; in branding, product development and critical interventions; in retail architectural planning and implementation; into spaces of product placement and consumer participation. |