September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011 collaborators: Lauren McCarthy places: 1st Floor, Collaboratory The Relation Station is a series of interactive two person games invented by our fall 2011 resident Lauren McCarthy. She used doll parts, lamp shades, masks and other sundries from the collection to create a situation where participants have to work with one another physically to...

September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011 collaborators: Lauren McCarthy places: 1st Floor, Collaboratory lauren transforms two lampshades by using different masks and faces and turns them into rotating hats giving the wearers the option of easily changing their appearance.

September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011 collaborators: Lauren McCarthy places: 1st Floor, Collaboratory lauren uses a corner of the collaboratory and creates the “relation station” a wall of interactive pieces that investigate identity, interaction, and physical contact. with “take a moment” she uses a fan that opens between two participants who are conversing and interrupts them by creating a...

September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011 collaborators: Andy Sturdevant places: 1st Floor, Natural History Hard Catalog is a series of twelve narratives about pieces of the collection coupled with illustrations of them mounted to wood panels. Andy centered his research of the material world of Elsewhere on a dimension of objecthood that, prior to his arrival, was rarely considered...