The Intercourse interior, Exquisite Corpse 2012

The Intercourse is an

arts center An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for ...

Red Hook, Brooklyn Red Hook is a neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, New York, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Car ...

, New York, U.S.A., founded by contemporary artist

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in 2012. The center includes a large scale exhibition space, a garden and sculpture park, an artist-in-residency program, a class and lecture series. The Intercourse opened to the public in June 2012 with Adam Green's show ''Cartoon and Complaint''.

The building

The Intercourse is housed in a brick building that dates back to the time of the

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. The space was originally a part of the complex of Pioneer Iron Works and is a remnant of Red Hook's booming industrial past. At the time the Iron Works occupied nearly the entire block between Van Brunt and Conover streets.

purchased the 24,000 square foot building in June 2011 and began renovations soon after.

The Intercourse Project

The Intercourse is focused on supporting and encouraging creative thought through the development, sharing and combining of ideas and collective knowledge. This goal is accomplished through hosting artist-in-resident studios, classes, lectures, a self-published magazine and rotating exhibitions in the main space and sculpture garden. The Intercourse Project is currently collaborating with

Recess Activities Recess Art is a publicly accessible nonprofit artist work and exhibition space located in a street-level storefront at 46 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City. Free of charge and open to the public, Recess facilitates ever ...

and is acting as a host space for Recess' program Session. The first edition of Intercourse Magazine is available now. It features contributions from Gibby Haynes,

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, Bob Colacello, and others

References

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