Artist's Intervention: From Detroit to Berlin: Rosa Parks' House Re-membered

"Before getting involved in the Rosa Parks House project, I was a twenty-five-year-old expatriate living in Berlin. Having lost touch with my country I thought that, rather than distance myself further from American values, I would embrace them fully in an attempt to colonize Europe with actual American houses. This was the start of what came to be known as the White House project. That first house was donated by friend of mine, native Detroiter Gregg Johnson, and was first located on Stoepel Street just off of Eight Mile, the road that divides a segregated Detroit.

After the White House was brought to Europe to the Verbeke Foundation, I gained adequate knowledge of how wooden houses could be disassembled and reassembled. On my trips back and forth to Detroit, I met, through Gregg Johnson at a performance at the Charles H. Wright Museum where the Rosa Parks House might possibly be conserved, Gregg Dunmore and Joel Boykin of Pulsebeat TV, who, on hearing of my endeavors, put me in contact with Rhea McCauley, Rosa Parks's niece."

Mendoza, Ryan. "Artist's Intervention: From Detroit to Berlin: Rosa Parks' House Re-membered," Future Anterior, Vol 15, No 2 (2018) 158-163.