A group of artists has a taken up residence at 593 Soudan Ave. in a house that is slated for demolition. It sold recently for $699,000 to a builder. The group calls itself Project Soudan and it has a Facebook page at The Soudan Project One participant is James Anthony Usas, shown above from Facebook. He is described as a video-artist and designer currently completing a Master of Architecture Degree at Waterloo University. An excerpt from material on the page: “The Soudan Project is a collaborative effort derived from an experiment by Toronto-based architects and artists. It is meant to explore and challenge the existential relationship with our immediate dwelling; consciously. We think that the house/place that we inhabit is present, yet intertwined with our everyday life, beyond its function or material existence. It is simultaneously giving home to our emotions, memories and state of mind, while sheltering our bodies and belongings. Through architecture the places we live in blends the boundaries of tangible and intangible, rendering an imagined world that is personal and distinct. We invited artists and asked them a simple question: “What have you always wanted to do to a house?”
