IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EIDIA HOUSE / PLATO’S CAVE
The 4th July Benefit !
For Emergency Repairs to
The Deconsumptionists Art as Archive 48ft Trailer
From July 3 into August 2025
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday by appointment 646 226 6478
Aside from other EIDIA projects The Deconsumptionists Art as Archive (2009–) is now in need of repairs and 'road-worthiness'. “To be is to do.” Immanuel Kant. What is to be done?, new roll-up rear door, breaks, lights, tires, a new paint job with signage and solar panel roof service and batteries.
Here's how you can help us and improve your life. First come / first serve. Enjoy yourself—scroll down and up—choose what you want and go to eidia.com click the donate button – let us know your desire and your mailing address. It is yours as fast as EIDIA HOUSE can post it to you. And or if you are in ‘the hood’ near EIDIA HOUSE Studio just drop in for a coffee, water, wine and a chat—too, there is much more art to choose from. Your life is improved !
PDF Benefit Link.
You are invited to participate in our annual benefit and visit the PLATO’S CAVE summer show—a group exhibition of many of the PLATO’S CAVE ARTISTS’ LIMITED EDITIONS with other artist colleagues and friend’s originals.
EIDIA HOUSE initiated PLATO’S CAVE Exhibitions in 2009 and planned only a 2-year run. Low and behold it is now 2025 and PLATO’S CAVE is still ‘at it.’ Who-knew? How was this accomplished, no clue just ‘blind faith’.
We have done our modest bit to support fellow artists and have extended that practice in a very substantial way by overseeing the Robert Allen Witz Estate—an ‘old friend’ about whom we made the film ‘BOB’S WORLD’ from 2017-2023. Sadly, Bob left us at age 86 in 2021 as filming went into post-production. BOB’S WORLD has received 20 festival awards.
We maintain the Bob Witz estate and his archive of over one thousand artworks which are now in climate controlled storage. Your ideas and referrals are appreciated as approaches are being made to galleries / institutions to take over this marvelous, amazing archive that we have ‘genuinely’ struggled to hold together. You can learn about Bob here: www.eidia.com/bobs-world.html
You can also request the 44-page press kit and link to the film short BOB’S WORLD.
For PLATO’S CAVE at EIDIA House founders Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf curate invited fellow artists who create installations and accompanying editions displayed in the underground ‘bunker’ space PLATO’S CAVE. EIDIA House does not function as an art gallery, but collaborates with other artists to create change with art—keeping within an ongoing discipline of Aesthetic Research.
Thank you for your continuing support!
Melissa Wolf / Paul Lamarre
EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place
Brooklyn, NY 11249
EIDIA.COM
646 226 6478
[email protected]
@EIDIAHOUSE
@bobs_world_the_film
EIDIA HOUSE / PLATO’S CAVE
The 4th July Benefit !
For Emergency Repairs to
The Deconsumptionists Art as Archive 48ft Trailer
From July 3 into August 2025
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday by appointment 646 226 6478
Aside from other EIDIA projects The Deconsumptionists Art as Archive (2009–) is now in need of repairs and 'road-worthiness'. “To be is to do.” Immanuel Kant. What is to be done?, new roll-up rear door, breaks, lights, tires, a new paint job with signage and solar panel roof service and batteries.
Here's how you can help us and improve your life. First come / first serve. Enjoy yourself—scroll down and up—choose what you want and go to eidia.com click the donate button – let us know your desire and your mailing address. It is yours as fast as EIDIA HOUSE can post it to you. And or if you are in ‘the hood’ near EIDIA HOUSE Studio just drop in for a coffee, water, wine and a chat—too, there is much more art to choose from. Your life is improved !
PDF Benefit Link.
You are invited to participate in our annual benefit and visit the PLATO’S CAVE summer show—a group exhibition of many of the PLATO’S CAVE ARTISTS’ LIMITED EDITIONS with other artist colleagues and friend’s originals.
EIDIA HOUSE initiated PLATO’S CAVE Exhibitions in 2009 and planned only a 2-year run. Low and behold it is now 2025 and PLATO’S CAVE is still ‘at it.’ Who-knew? How was this accomplished, no clue just ‘blind faith’.
We have done our modest bit to support fellow artists and have extended that practice in a very substantial way by overseeing the Robert Allen Witz Estate—an ‘old friend’ about whom we made the film ‘BOB’S WORLD’ from 2017-2023. Sadly, Bob left us at age 86 in 2021 as filming went into post-production. BOB’S WORLD has received 20 festival awards.
We maintain the Bob Witz estate and his archive of over one thousand artworks which are now in climate controlled storage. Your ideas and referrals are appreciated as approaches are being made to galleries / institutions to take over this marvelous, amazing archive that we have ‘genuinely’ struggled to hold together. You can learn about Bob here: www.eidia.com/bobs-world.html
You can also request the 44-page press kit and link to the film short BOB’S WORLD.
For PLATO’S CAVE at EIDIA House founders Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf curate invited fellow artists who create installations and accompanying editions displayed in the underground ‘bunker’ space PLATO’S CAVE. EIDIA House does not function as an art gallery, but collaborates with other artists to create change with art—keeping within an ongoing discipline of Aesthetic Research.
Thank you for your continuing support!
Melissa Wolf / Paul Lamarre
EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place
Brooklyn, NY 11249
EIDIA.COM
646 226 6478
[email protected]
@EIDIAHOUSE
@bobs_world_the_film
THE NEA TAPES PARTICIPANTS TOTAL
Plato's Cave Exhibiting Artists 2009 -
This list includes three group shows and three solos in The Deconsumptionists - Art As Archive semi-trailer in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
We launched Plato’s Cave at our EIDIA House Studio in Williamsburg Brooklyn NY in 2009 with a trajectory to exhibit for just 48 months. Now, over ten years later we continue, and with more exhibits planned into 2025. All of this was made possible with the generous support of all these gifted artists and with the enduring support of literally thousands of art lovers from across the globe. You know who you are and we thank you.
Elaine Angelopoulos, Todd Ayoung, Ella Banks, Bruce Barber, Chloë Bass, Lisa Bateman, Jay Batlle, Cecilie Beck, Fredie Beckmans and Nina Peru, BOLDFACE, Brad Buckley, John Cage, Deric Carner, Alberto Casais, William Copley (S.M.S.), Jim Costanzo-The Aaron Burr Society, Jay Critchley wt Baby Skin Glove, Ford Crull and Anthony Haden-Guest, Jacqueline de Jong, Matt Delbridge, Michelle B. Duchamp, Jeff Goldberg, Heike Hamann, Heide Hatry, Irene Hug, I.C.A.N. Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown: (Alex Gawronski, Scott Donovan & Carla Cescon), Jessica Kaire, Thatcher Keats, Marni Kotak Nina Kuo and Lorin Roser, Joke Lanz, Ellen K. Levy, Susanne Lingemann, Pia Linz, Sean Lowry, Valerian Maly, Anthony McCarty, Mitch McEwen, Alexander Melamid, Frank J. Miles, Maynard Monrow, Andrea Monti, Bill Mutter and Betty Tompkins, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Rogers, Sarah Safford, Sante Scardillo, Patrick Scheid, Beate Schlingelhoff, Gregory Sholette, Mark Shorter, Clark Stoeckley, Tony Schwensen, Twilight Girls – Helen Hyatt-Johnston & Jane Polkinghorne, Tom Warren, Ripley Whiteside, Hans Winkler, Bob Witz,
with others to be announced.
EIDIA House is a 501c3 sponsorship of Fractured Atlas. Tax-deductible contributions are accepted.
Donation Link: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/eidia-house
Donation Link: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/eidia-house
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“Bob Witz: An Orbit All By Himself”
December 12, 2018 to January 31, 2019
Bob Witz is the 29th initiative of the ongoing PLATO’S CAVE exhibition series.
Plato's Cave installation views of
“Bob Witz: An Orbit All By Himself” in 2019
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