In real life 06 - April 27th - New York City on a Roof

People that know about my whereabouts as an artist also know about "City on a Roof" and "Do the Rooftop-Hop", situation art concepts I coined to develop together with a couple of architects, designers and the Pavlov medialab. To put it simple I would say that these projects were an attempt to inhabit inner city rooftops in order to unlock undetermined city space for creative city development (City on a Roof) and artistic experiment in public (Do the Rooftop-hop).

 

It was a delight to see that such a rooftop landscape was eventually build, not in the Netherlands but here in New York City. It is actually a modification of a former subway fly-over called "the High line". http://www.thehighline.org/ Now covered with green and redecorated as a public performance space the High line unlocks a formerly hard to penetrate western harbor area of Manhattan, starting from the Chelsea art district. April 27th Niek and I took a stroll on this marvelous stretch of public space. Watch the video.