I’ve yet to speak with Suzanne Fiol to learn the ultimate fate of Issue Project Room, which is moving out of its Carroll Street silo while the Gowanus is cleaned.
They are using a space in the American Can Factory, the red building at Third Avenue and Third for the month of July. Also known as XO projects, there seems to be a lot going on there, including Rooftop Films. I have friends with studios in there. I even looked at a studio there once.
The web site says this: "The Old American Can Factory is an industrial complex built around 1885 on the Fourth Street Basin of the Gowanus Canal in Gowanus, Brooklyn – a place where things are still being made. A new place in an old space, it is a haven to a vital community of more than 200 people who conceive, manufacture and distribute a myriad of ideas, experiences and products in the arts and culture industries."
The first night at the Can Factory will feature a video/laptop collaboration between poet Joe Wenderoth and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, on July 3rd at 8pm. Please help us inaugurate the new space–we are very excited about our summer tenancy there!