Open House (Just Past)

Instead of making a new artwork, present a work previously made by another artist. In 1972, Gordon Matta-Clark staged an installation and performance in an industrial waste container on Greene Street in New York. Open House is the filmic document of this event. In the vein of much of Matta-Clark's work, Open House invokes an urbanism as the analogue of architectonic memory, finding in the discarded in-between spaces moments of clarity. Open House has never previously been screened in Ireland. Its presentation at IMMA inside an unused shipping container is an historical moment of sorts - one that occupies a temporal proximity between what is happening and what has already happened...

One person's behaviour reciprocally reflects and depends upon the other's.

(Sarah Pierce, "Notes on Open House (Just Past)", sited inside a shipping container on the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of the visual arts programme curated by Mark Garry for the Fringe Festival, Dublin 22 September - 11 October 2003.)