Feb 6, 2022
Becky Howland, The Real Estate Show, Flyer, 11 x 8,5 inches, 1979, Courtesy of Becky Howland.
Stedelijk Studies
"They found a vacant, city-owned storefront at 125 Delancey Street, broke in around Christmas time, and installed The Real Estate Show."
“...The occupation and exposition imposes a complex human system where previously there was no system,” stated a manifesto written on the occasion, “or only the system of waste and disuse that characterizes the profit system in real estate.”
"...The Real Estate Show was a metalinguistic operation: the real estate was the content, but also constituted the context of the operation."