Inhabited '98: Afterlives

Site-specific performance/installation at Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC

Projects by independent artists re-animated the four-story Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a  National Historic Landmark building, home to nearly 10,000 immigrants during the late-19th and  early-20th centuries. Visitors in groups of fifteen were guided through partially restored  apartments and ruins open to the public for the first time since they were closed and the residents evicted during the Great Depression.  

Curation/direction: Dana Salisbury and Maureen Brennan

Produced by Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Red Dive (Maureen Brennan, Catherine Dill, Peggy Peloquin, Bonnie  Reese, Dana Salisbury, Ashley Smith), a collective of six independent artists established in 1996, that grew out of and received support from the Independent Artist Challenge Program, a creative think-tank administered by The Field and funded by the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. 

Projects by: Romy Achituv & Danielle Wilde, Ariane Anthony, Noah Baen, Eliza Brown,  Christopher Caines, Ellen Kaplan, Lloyd Lawrence, Michael Lillard, Clarinda MacLow, Sam  Newsome, Jon Rubin, John-Mario Sevilla, Skin-Deep Productions, Paige Stevenson, Marion  Stanton, Richard Airiq Williams, Blaine Wolf, Stefanie Zadravec. Light Design and Technical  Direction: Jane Cox and Frank DenDanto. Card photo: Michael Lillard