Pierce Erez-Henderson
is an educator, urbanist, and artist. With the goal of understanding and explaining learning and knowing, his practice spans a wide range of physical, digital, sonic, textual, and computational projects that engage audiences across communities and disciplines. Pierce holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
 

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Soft House (2019)
A do-it-yourself music venue in Station North, Baltimore, MD, hosting artists and music collectives from Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. Bi-weekly events with 50-250+ attendance.

This project sat within interstitial space. It was entirely cooperative, with revenue exclusively going towards the artists and volunteer labor (via three co-founders) supplying the management and organizing of the venue and artist network. My partners and I flourished, in part, by simply reanimating existing social infrastructure: the original Soft House, launched in the 2000s, achieved significant regional notoriety in the East Coast US experimental underground music scene. Then the building itself, the Copycat, factory-turned-artist-community, changed Baltimore’s zoning code through its successful modeling of alternative ways of living and working.

Collaborators: Nikilad (Co-founder, music collective leader), DJ Shshunj (Co-founder)