Ice House focuses on the prevailing structures and landscapes of New York’s ice industry that operated along the Hudson River and NYC waterways during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Formerly manufacturing and storage facilities that harvested, cut, and stockpiled reserves of ice, these sites endure today as luxury residential towers, office spaces, cultural institutions, riverside ruins, parks, and vacant lots. Remnants of a thriving and vital market that once extracted and monetized a translucent, melting, natural resource, these sites conceptually demonstrate different notions of *ice-infrastructures* that modern humanity has either chosen to protect or neglect. Using ice and its properties as a metaphorical lens, this work will draw upon the history of natural ice in New York to merge intersectional and geopolitical narratives of capitalism, environmentalism, labor, and class.
