“Art should be experienced at a place that allows staying”
Glasshouse Project is an artist-led cultural program, dedicated to ephemeral art, with a focus on durational performance art and ecologically driven projects. Founded in 2007 and migrated through several sites- apartments, storefronts, art institutions, and a former hotel- Glasshouses is a process. It is led by artist Lital Dotan and governed by Board members who are artists and educators. Glasshouse Project is a 501c3 non profit currently operating in New Paltz, NY, some 90 minutes from NYC.
Glasshouse is regularly organizing, producing and hosting performances, thematic exhibitions, festivals and a residency program. Learn more about our mission and various programs here.
The core artistic program for Glasshouse Project changes focus annually. Check out our upcoming events. Open calls are published to many of our events. To keep up to date either follow us on social media or join our mailing list.
Alongside Glasshouse's public program and premises, the unique nature of our founders’ domestic environment on site, is a meditation on the nature of performance, exploring themes such as unannounced performances, long durational activities, one-to-one performances, accumulated performances and archives of presence and absence; thus expanding the taxonomy of performative practice. These activities as a whole are being interweaved with and by their daily practice and life.
Contact us to schedule your visit, ask a question or introduce yourself: contact (at) glasshouseproject.org
We acknowledge that Glasshouse resides on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape and Schaghticoke people and express thanks for their stewardship of this land past, present and future.
THE NEO-DOMESTICITY MANIFESTO
An 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 collectively created for the first ‘Neo Domesticity Roundtable’ hosted in 2013 at Glasshouse in Brooklyn-
Publications
7 invitations is a gathering of essays that document and respond to seven projects made by artists, researchers and curators at Glasshouse ArtLifeLab during the years 2012- 2014. Each responds to an invitation extended by Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry to enter, to homage, to transgress, to resist, to tell, to fail and to construct. Contributing writers include: Sara Jane Bailes, Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry, Jennifer Johung, Zoya Kocur, Esther Neff and Nick Zedd. Glasshouse is a durational ArtLifeLab founded by artists Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry. Glasshouse in Brooklyn hosts performances, discussions, workshops, residencies and guided visits, all dedicated to promoting performance practices and discourse in the domestic sphere.
This comprehensive book by artist duo Lital Dotan and Eyal Perry summarizes 5 years of activity as the Glasshouse project. Both an artistic laboratory and a home, the Glasshouse was first created by artists Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry in Tel-Aviv in 2007 with the basic concept that 'Art should be experienced in a place that allows staying'. After opening their home to the public as a live performance platform and art installation, Glasshouse TLV quickly gained national and international recognition. Over the next three years it grew to include educational and international artist-in-residency programs, and attracted many thousands visitors. The book includes two conversations with seminal performance artist Marina Abramovic about performance art in general and the Glasshouse project and essays by Moshe Zuckermann and Igal Vardi.
Some images from events, festivals and gatherings at our previous location in Brooklyn, NY 2012-2019
