Now that’s a subject close to our hearts. And there’s a new exhibition at the Center for Performance Research in Greenpoint, written about in the Times’ today (see Only the Blog Links), which promotes dialogue about the resulting emotional and physical displacement of individuals within the urban context.

Art and the lives of cultural producers can serve as metaphors for broader spatial, social, economic, and political dislocations. They go through seemingly endless cycles of discovering disregarded and thus affordable corners in which to live and practice their craft, are targeted as a market segment, creating value and drawing new businesses and real estate development, raising the profile of their neighborhoods, and subsequently being priced out of the very niches they’ve struggled to carve out for themselves.

The show opens on Saturday night. Here are the ‘tails:

Saturday, March 8, 2008
6:30 Art Opening
8:30 Performance
10:00 After Party

Performances
will be given by Ann Liv Young, Kayvon Pourazar, Amanda Loulaki, Matija
Ferlin, and Jonah Bokaer in collaboration with Michael Cole.

The art exhibition will be open on Saturdays and Sundays, from noon to 6pm and by appointment from March 9–30, 2008.

Displacement will be held at greenbelt:
361 Manhattan Avenue (between Jackson and Withers)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

L Train to Lorimer or Graham
G Train to Metropolitan

Visitors are encouraged to visit www.hopstop.com to find the best route for walking, biking, or taking public transportation to greenbelt.