SSH
Site Specific Happenings (SSH) is a shape-shifting arts platform for site-responsive happenings, immersive experiences and place-based art.
SSH makes artist-driven happenings inspired by place and the spirit of experimentation. We seek to build community, inspire and intrigue.
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Photography by Eugene Bertrand and John Havens Thornton
Why Site-Specific?
We love the idiosyncratic details of older buildings and their stories, and want other people to love them too. Our site-specific focus offers a more sustainable—and enticing—path forward for our collective built future.
Hyper-efficiency and mass-production have us moving in the direction of sameness and homogenized spaces. Site-specific experiences are created in direct response to the character, history, and spirit of the place they inhabit. We hope that our choices of location will intrigue and inspire a future with more frill and widen public interest in creating new uses for forgotten structures.
We hope this opens rusted doors, hidden windows, and long-dormant labyrinths for what could be.
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A happening is a term borrowed from Kaprow (influenced by the Surrealists + Dadaists) for an event or form of entertainment with a degree of spontaneity directed by artists combining elements of the arts and life situations.
A happening could resemble a dinner party, an art exhibition, a shop, a group game, a cookout, a performance, etc.
This is a de-formalized pathway to bringing people together for natural experience of a curated concept.
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SSH is co-founded by Mimi Pinheiro (artist + experience designer) and Peter Leonard (creative technology + fabrication).
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SSH is based between New Bedford, Ma, New Orleans, LA and sometimes Mexico City. Future happenings can occur anywhere.