The Center for Architecture, New York, NY, May 14, 2007
The Esopus 8 launch party was held at New York City’s Center for Architecture, located just around the corner from the Esopus office, in the heart of Greenwich Village. The evening included a special performance of Headlong Dance Theater’s Cell piece (featured in Esopus 8) by founding members of the Philadelphia-based troupe, who invited attendees to participate—one person at a time—in an improvisatory dance at a ballet studio at New York University just a block away.
With the help of several very creative interns, I decided to build an enlarged scale-model 3-D version of the issue, which we placed on the mezzanine floor of the space, visible to passersby on LaGuardia Place.
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For some reason, I became obsessed with the idea of creating an enlarged, four-by-six-foot version of Esopus 8 for its launch party at the Center for Architecture. The Center, located just half a block south of our office, happened to have a mezzanine floor that was viewable from the street through its large plate-glass window. Thanks to my game and inventive interns at the time, Ceclia Chost, Thomas Seely, and Laura Williamson—and especially to the ever-generous George Kondogianis [pictured here], who printed an enlarged version of the front cover gratis—we were able to craft, with a lot of duct tape and glue, an object that we carried over by hand and installed in the space before the party started.
