boone @ BRAC

FALL 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Located in front of the Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) currently under renovation at West Farms Square, only a few blocks from Boone Avenue, Boone at BRAC will transform seven of the large graffiti-covered steel roll-down doors, specially recovered from Boone Avenue, into the unfolding canopy of a performance space on the Square. BOONE AT BRAC will be constructed by architecture students and Bronx youth during the summer and fall of 2015, becoming a focus for BRAC events, integrating and amplifying forms of Bronx Art. The BOONE AT BRAC signals the transformative dispersal of the vanished BOONE AVENUE art walls into places of simultaneous action, while also attracting passersby and visitors to notice the cultural and recreational offerings in the vicinity. Located at the foot of the West Farms stop of the elevated 2/5 NYC Subway, one of two station stops servicing the Bronx Zoo, BOONE AT BRAC invites visitors to "Meet the Styles" head-on upon exiting the station, and by seeking shade under its harvested graffitied gates. West Farms Square becomes a focus for happenings and performance linking the Bronx River Art Center to cultural nodes along the river, under the gathered narrative fragments of Boone Avenue and to herald the Bronx River Art Center’s upcoming re-opening.