HOUSE OF THE MARBLE MISTRESS
This interactive experience of a historical
Bronx ruin in transition will take place on the afternoon of April
15. More details about the event will be posted here.
MINI-GOLF INSIDE THE BUFFALO CENTRAL TERMINAL
Pack your argyle slacks and head on up to
Buffalo! As part of the larger celebration "Ghost Train",
Ars Subterranea is decking out portions of the abandoned Buffalo
Central Terminal in style. More on our mini-golf extravaganza here.
AMERICAN
RUINS
A feature-length, mixed media journey through
the relics and ruins of Abandoned America. This film documentation
by our art directors, Bryan Papciak and Jeff Sias, is co-produced
by Scout
Productions and Ars Subterranea. Filming began in early December
at Bethlehem Steel in Pennsylvania. Bryan Papciak's previous experimental
short film, Met
State, won a number of awards and is the official favorite
movie of the Dark
Passage
crew. More on the production can be found here.
THE LOST DINOSAURS OF CENTRAL PARK
Together with Carl Mehling of the American Museum of Natural
History, we have been working to commemorate Benjamin Waterhouse
Hawkins' lost dinosaur models and the doomed Paleozoic Museum in
Central Park. For more details, go
here.
THE GARDEN OF CRUMBLING DELIGHTS
Ars Subterranea presents an online photo
exhibit centered around the beauty of architectural decay. Go
here to view our gallery.
ANATOMY OF A HOSPITAL
A virtual journey through hidden and abandoned parts of a hospital
complex in Jersey City. We are currently
assembling our documentation of the art deco buildings of this
hospital, which relocated to a new facility in May 2004.
FURNACE PRESS
In collaboration with Place in History, we have started a publishing house geared
towards documenting
the obscure and neglected: urban decrepitude, industrial ruins, disjointed neighborhoods.
Visit the Furnace
Press site for more information.
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL
Based on the film noir from 1952, this urban
scavenger hunt - part of an architectural event by Grand
Arts - will send teams of explorers into the neglected underbelly
of Kansas City. Join us here.
UNDERWORLD
CONGRESS
Ars Subterranea participated in the first international Underworld Congress, held in Vienna in November 2005. Aaron Benoy and Julia Solis presented images on subterranean America, including photos of New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, along with photos of underground Dallas taken by Robert Stephens. Our host, Peter Ryborz, is compiling a book of the congress materials for publication in 2006.
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
In this Manhattan-based exhibition,
we playfully raise the question of what sort of odd life forms could
spring from the decay of urban ruins and what new inhabitants and transformations
might await decrepit spaces.
THE RIDDLE OF THE BURIED STREAM
Discover the traces of one of Manhattan's lost underground rivers. This
way to our scavenger hunt....
EXHIBIT ON UNDERGROUND NEW YORK
Our inaugural event, an Exhibit
on Underground New York, was held on November 10, 2002 inside
the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in Brooklyn. Photos from the exhibit are
posted here. The event received much media coverage, including
Time
Out New York, New
York Times, New
York Press, The
Morning News, and others.
TOPSY MEMORIAL DESIGN COMPETITION
In collaboration with the artist Gavin Heck, Ars Subterranea held
a design
competition to commemorate Topsy, the elephant who was electrocuted
by Thomas Edison in Coney Island in 1903.
THE MYSTERIOUS MURALS OF KINGS
PARK
Ars Subterranea investigated the unusual murals located at the abandoned
Kings Park Psychiatric Center, which were found to be the work of Percy
Crosby. A selection of photos can be
viewed
here. More details on the murals are covered in a
Newsday
article.
