Our Mission
Glasshouse Project Inc. is dedicated to nourishing the research, contextualization and development of live art, with a focus on durational performance art. Glasshouse Project supports the process of live artists through a residency program, an event program, workshops and publications. We work with a diverse roster of local and international artists and scholars, to develop and rethink cutting edge works of contemporary performance art. Glasshouse Project is community-based and ecologically driven- our aim is to provide quality cultural offerings crafted with and for the local rural community we are part of.
Our Core Programs
S.O.U.P
SOUP Program: Glasshouse’s SOUP Program (S.O.U.P: See, Organize, Understand Performance) produces festivals and events that generate research in performance art practice, based on annual themes. These events are free and open to the public, often in collaboration with local organizations.
Durational Performances
The Durational performances at Glasshouse are a result of the extensive engagement with the term "to allow staying" which is part of the Glasshouse motto "ART SHOULD BE EXPERIENCED AT A PLACE THAT ALLOWS STAYING".
This extended time frame of 3-24 hours allows performers to explore the durationability and sustainability of their performance and challenge their performative practice. It allows artists to embrace the breaking and bending points of their own piece.
Visitors, which are welcome to stay throughout the performance, are allowed an intimate view to the subtleties of a durational performance and of the performer's own state within it.
We’ve hosted 15 events of 24 hours performances or longer in recent years as well as festivals such as ‘Present Continuous’ 24h festival (2023) and the Neo Domesticity Performance Art Festival (2017) which was a 100 consecutive hours festival of durational performances 3-24 hours happening simultaneously throughout the house.
Homage Factory
The HOMAGE FACTORY is a collective, autodidactic effort, seeking to reinforce and elaborate on art-historical trajectories in performance art and to respond to the methods and modes of influential performance artists.
These performances are not attempts to reproduce past or existing performances, but are rather responses to particular concerns, aesthetics, and ideas that the performing artist identifies in the homage artist’s work. These homage performances embody the relation between past and present, and are designed to set a language based on appreciation.
Some past homage performance evenings include tribute to artists as Ana Mendieta, Allan Kaprow, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yves Klein, Valie Export, Yoko Ono, Pina Bausch, Sarah Kane and many more.
A.I.R
Hosting as artistic practice.
Our residency program was launched at Glasshouse in 2009 and designed for professionals in the performance field (artists, curators and scholars) to deepen their work and research in the field of performance art while engaging with the various communities in/around Glasshouse.
Open calls are currently on hold due to covid-19. The residency now runs based on invitation.
Past residence artists include OMNI ZONA FRANCA, Jennifer Johung (curator in residence), Nick Zedd, Karen Bößer, Sara Jane Bailes (writer in residence), Jovana Stokic (curator in residence) and many more.
THE NEO DOMESTICITY MANIFESTO:
Applied utopia; Cleaning the house is an artistic practice; art and life sustainability = durationality.
Sustaining our life = sustaining our art; Art should be experienced at place that allows staying.
This is a (flux) community generation; Not your bourgeoisie dream; Our home is not a fortress.
We value our independence; No prizes for life= no prizes for art.
Neo Domesticity is a laboratory; We collect empiric truths; No mediators.
Neo Domesticities is (in) movement; Temporary-Autonomous-Zone; A repeated duet of private and public; Time based dynamic interiors.
We avoid encounters with real/estate authorities; Genuine Hospital/ity; Hosting is an artistic practice.
Have some soup
-The above is a manifesto created for the first ‘Neo Domesticity Roundtable’ hosted in 2013 at Glasshouse-