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725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 
The Dust: American Matter   
11/2017 - 2019
To view the outside portion of the installation, drive by. We recommend night viewing. Full installation: call ahead for an appointment/instructions for entry.

Special thanks to:
Arturs Virtmanis
Christian Hamrick
Thomas Savage
for installation/production,
and to
Joe Scaramuzzino and Coatesville Scrap Iron & Metal Co. Inc. for 5 tons of shredded metal on loan for The Dust.

Further reading: 
'Shandor Hassan's Shack', and 'Haunted', on the Lebbeus Woods blog. https://www.works.io/shandor-hassan
http://www.shandorhassan.com/
Shandor Hassan's site-specific installation, in Street Road’s former mushroom farming house, is a meditation on American production and automobile cultures. The work consists of recycled materials from rural Pennsylvanian metal and auto recycling plants. This large scale American wasteland-dreamscape reflects upon a collective folk-roadway, American cultural memory, and diminishing American idealism.

​Born in Los Angeles, California in 1968, Hassan lives in Brooklyn, NY. He works in the media of photography, installations, found materials and furniture and building. He holds a BFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, was a Fulbright scholar to Hungary (2008-2010), a NYFA recipient (2016), and a NYSCA recipient for the Québec Arts/Exchange Residency (2017). He participated in the Istanbul Biennial in 2005 and the Budapest OFF Biennial MUSEUM in 2015 and was a faculty member of the International Center of Photography from 1999-2008. He has been exhibiting in New York City and internationally since 1995 and will be in residence at ZK/U Berlin, Germany in the Fall and Winter 2017.
In connection with The Dust: American Matter, Hassan has been awarded a 2019 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts / Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance grant to develop public programming and a publication.

This will include documents of the installation process at Street Road, locations from which materials were collected, photographs from the environment of Pennsylvania roadside culture, and the general landscapes that surround Street Road, including its nearby small towns and rural spaces. Conversations with locals Shandor met and spoke with during the process will be included. Check back here for updates on programming and publication timelines.

This project is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. ​

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During this period of social distancing Street Road is offering one-on-one Skype tours of the exhibition. Just message 610-869-4712 or email us to set one up.

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A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendents are now located in Oklaholma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendents live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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