FLUID ARCHITECTURE

Radeke Garden, 3rd floor.

Contribute to this collaborative textile installation that explores the way architecture makes people navigate spaces.

Fluid Architecture manifested as a yarn bomb garden activating the cold, sterile, harsh-edged museum garden space. This installed experience encouraged sociability in an under-utilized part of the museum floorpan. RAC teens ask, “How does one disrupt the expectation of a space?” A room off of the garden harbors dimly lit space for music, dancing, and snacks. Here, RAC teens circumvent the “security cameras” ever-watching of young humans.

DREAM STATE RIDE

Fain Gallery, 3rd floor.

Create your own drawing inspired by dreams, nightmares, and altered realities. Add it to a collaborative landscape built using 3D modeling technology.

Dream State Ride situated itself in conversation with the RISD Museum print-centric exhibition, “Visions and Revisions”, February 15 through August 4, 2019. This ride of dreams, nightmares,

and altered realities in a drawing format culminated as a sort of augmented reality game focusing on visibility and the notion that “my art is as worthy as anything else, as anything placed on a museum’s walls”.

SPACE TRAVEL TREEHOUSE

European Grand Gallery, 5th floor.

Design your space helmet before taking off to a new planet where you will join a new community and share your aspirations for a new world.

Space Travel Treehouse intervened by ways of softness and heaviness within the confines of the Grand Gallery at the RISD Museum. This gallery of grandeur is salon-style, traditional-style, and European-style. The large room sits at the heart of the museum flaunting little diversity of artist, style, period, or medium. This tree house with the means to travel space begs the question, “How does one go somewhere and not colonize it?”. The centralized fort ushers you in and encourages you to create propositions, requests, and prompts for helping someone live in a new place. A house in the trees that asks questions and demands answers.