ÅYR presented installation I’d Rather Be Outside at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, as part of the Holland Festival, running June 11 to June 25.
Installed at the site of Museumplein, the work sprawls across the green open space; free and accessible, the 3D printed concrete forms create a landscape of rooms. A comment on the contemporary housing situation, the collective explore, “issues connected with the global housing crisis, mass production and the relationship between public and private.”
They also created a large scale text work, collaborating with graphic designer Fabian Harb for the font and fragments of poems selected by curator Harry Burke, including excerpts by Joan Larkin, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Carry van Bruggen, Sophie Collins and more. In addition, the collective invited Martha Rosler to exhibit her animated billboard ‘Housing Is a Human Right’ (1989).
åyr, founded in 2014, is made up of four architects who tackle “ownership, privacy and sharing within the domestic space.”**