Live video stream of the performance today, 11/11 at 11am CST. View HD stream of the performance at the prototype 180 site.
From the website:
The only metropolitan area in the United States without a formal land use policy/no zoning, the city of Houston selected itself as the site for prototype 180, where there is an implicit freedom associated with Houston's 'free enterprise' development.
prototype 180 is, literally, a ground-shifting exercise, in that it structurally involves the rotation, back to front, of a house and its surrounding land by Cherry House Moving. By rotating the house and land 180 degrees, Mary Ellen Carroll is calling for a total reorientation of thinking, of vantage point, and of how we work and how we live. This process Carroll believes a complete reconsideraton in standard operating procedure must occur to encourage new policies of the urban, cultural, and the social. Post the structural rotation, Carroll will retrofit and rehabilitate the unoccupied structure and it will be reprogrammed architecturally.