The Border Projects: In conversation
In Conversation utilizes a pair of constructed, portable tents that travel to different locations. Each location and new set of visitors raises its own set of connections, concerns, and questions. The tents serve as meeting places for the public to interact, participate in conversations, listen, and reflect on what they have heard, seen, or experienced. They have served as sites for readings, poetry, workshops, panel discussions, and retreats.
The canvas tent (the speaking tent) functions as a semi-private location for conversations to occur. Participants can choose to record audio via smartphones from these conversations and send to [email protected] for inclusion in a growing archive. In the transparent tent (the listening tent), participants listen to recorded conversations through sets of headphones.
This work opens up conversation as a medium to discuss an ever-widening variety of topics surrounding borders today such as the Syrian refugee crisis, immigration, and homelessness, as well as personal, emotional, social, and economic borders. Talking with and truly listening to one another becomes a way to model a potential solution to conflict, even on a small scale; it is a practice of being together and caring for each other--an extension of the realization that change must begin on a personal level. This simple act of conversation creates something poetic, symbolic, and meaningful.
Special thanks to collaborator Michael Cunningham for working with me to develop this project.
The canvas tent (the speaking tent) functions as a semi-private location for conversations to occur. Participants can choose to record audio via smartphones from these conversations and send to [email protected] for inclusion in a growing archive. In the transparent tent (the listening tent), participants listen to recorded conversations through sets of headphones.
This work opens up conversation as a medium to discuss an ever-widening variety of topics surrounding borders today such as the Syrian refugee crisis, immigration, and homelessness, as well as personal, emotional, social, and economic borders. Talking with and truly listening to one another becomes a way to model a potential solution to conflict, even on a small scale; it is a practice of being together and caring for each other--an extension of the realization that change must begin on a personal level. This simple act of conversation creates something poetic, symbolic, and meaningful.
Special thanks to collaborator Michael Cunningham for working with me to develop this project.
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Schedule & Locations:
November 29, 2018-January 26, 2019, Cleve Carney Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
May 14-July 8, 2018: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
May-July 2017: Collar Works, Troy, NY
November 3, 2016, 1-8pm: The Teaching Gallery, Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy, NY
July 23, 2016, 1-5pm: Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State St, floor 7, Chicago, IL (Readings & Gatherings)
July 15-31, 2016, 11am-5pm, Tues-Sat: Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State St, floor 7, Chicago, IL
June 30, 2016, 1-3pm: Lakefront Trail, Foster Beach, Edgewater, Chicago, IL
June 26, 2016, 11-3pm: (Readings & Gatherings) Old Town, Chicago, IL
June 17, 2016, 2-3pm: Kouw Park, Holland, MI
June 8, 2016, Madison St and River, Troy, NY
May 19, 2016, 3-5pm: Riverfront Park South, Troy, NY
November 29, 2018-January 26, 2019, Cleve Carney Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
May 14-July 8, 2018: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
May-July 2017: Collar Works, Troy, NY
November 3, 2016, 1-8pm: The Teaching Gallery, Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy, NY
July 23, 2016, 1-5pm: Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State St, floor 7, Chicago, IL (Readings & Gatherings)
July 15-31, 2016, 11am-5pm, Tues-Sat: Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State St, floor 7, Chicago, IL
June 30, 2016, 1-3pm: Lakefront Trail, Foster Beach, Edgewater, Chicago, IL
June 26, 2016, 11-3pm: (Readings & Gatherings) Old Town, Chicago, IL
June 17, 2016, 2-3pm: Kouw Park, Holland, MI
June 8, 2016, Madison St and River, Troy, NY
May 19, 2016, 3-5pm: Riverfront Park South, Troy, NY
You may remove your shoes and enter.
Where are your borders, your edges, your separations?
Are they geographic? Economic? Social?
Speak. Listen. Share
Introduce yourself.
If you are willing and able, record your conversation using your smartphone voice memo recorder and send it to [email protected] to be shared.
Where are your borders, your edges, your separations?
Are they geographic? Economic? Social?
Speak. Listen. Share
Introduce yourself.
If you are willing and able, record your conversation using your smartphone voice memo recorder and send it to [email protected] to be shared.
