Content of this issue:

Preserving Homes in New York: The Fluxus Dream of an Artists’ Co-op

Text: Kosuke Ide
Photo: Keisuke Fukamizu

In downtown Manhattan of New York City, the SoHo district is still lined with nineteenth-century cast-iron buildings—structures formed by pouring molten iron into molds. The area was once a warehouse district characterized by these structures that featured high ceilings supported by those iconic steel-frames. In the 1960s the lofts inside these buildings became a home for artists who inhabited them illegally. Years later, it transformed into a commercial area filled with stylish restaurants and boutiques. Though most of the artists are gone and the neighborhood seems entirely changed, a cooperative established in the late 1960s still endures here. We visited this remaining cooperative to trace the spirit that continues to survive in the city’s margins.

A story about visvim’s Hiroki Nakamura and his interactions with the “Fluxus” movement which took place in New York that birthed the Artists’ Coop “FLUXHOUSE.”

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