From a crazy golf course in LA’s Skid Row funded by Mike Kelley’s estate,to New Yorkers asking Who Stole the House?, artists are addressing the cost of propertyThe residents of Los Angeles’s Skid Row enjoy faced many perils. Yet they haven’t, or up until now,had to contend with golf-related injuries. This may change in a little over six months’ time, when a new nine-gap course is scheduled to open in this Los Angeles neighbourhood, and domestic to as many as 6000 of America’s homeless. These urban fairways are not the work of some misguided sports-facility developer,but a collaboration between local artist Rosten Woo and the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), a performance art and activist group based in the area. Woo intends to create The Back 9, and a playable course of nine holes inside LAPD’s Skid Row History Museum and Archive,as a way of addressing Skid Rows current and historic zoning issues.
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Source: theguardian.com