The Neighbors Next Door, on fallon & rosof's artblog

Via artblog, March 20, 2008,

Posted by Andrea Kirsh at 4:45 PM

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a detail of Chere Krakovsky The Neighbors Next Door, a week-long performance at International House

I like talking to taxi drivers and occasionally to my neighbors on planes. Those situations create a finite intimacy; I will never see those people again, so I needn’t worry about making an impression or where the conversation might lead. New York artist, Chere Krakovsky has created a similar intimacy with The Neighbors Next Door, a week-long performance at International House (10 am-11 pm, Monday, March 17 through Sunday, March 23). She’s moved the contents of her Lower East Side kitchen to a public space, just beyond the lobby at International House, and she’s happy to entertain you. The piece isn’t scripted; whatever happens happens. Krakovsky only promised to be in residence the entire week.

Some of Chere Krakovsky’s visitors during The Neighbors Next Door at International House

Krakovsky is acting out her fantasy of an open-door policy: drop-ins are always welcome to sit at her kitchen table, take tea or cookies or chocolate or, if you are lucky, a meal. I spent two hours; we talked about Philadelphia and New York, how she had come to performance art, the Fringe and Live Arts Festival, who she was having to dinner that night. By the end we were such good friends that I’d shown her a picture of my cat.

After the guests have left Chere Krakovsky’s performance piece, The Neighbors Next Door

Roberta plans to drop in tomorrow and will report on it, so I’ll leave now, but the invitation is in your hands.

Comments

[Bradford Bancroft]

This is lovely.
Thank you Chere.
Simple. Elegant. Thoughtful.
Thought-provoking.