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This installation was created in collaboration with painter Angelina Gualdoni (Chair, Painting, SMFA@Tufts) at Le Château de Monthelon in Burgundy, France.

Considering our increasingly overlapping labor roles, the installation constructs a physical space that has a plurality of function - a hybrid live/work space that reflects the complications and multiplicities of the domestic space as office, as studio, as playroom, as leisure space, as display.

While looking at artistic lineages around this multiplicity of production including artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Mary Heilman, Marc Camille Chaimowitz, and the Tropicalia movement, we wanted to construct a temporary space of deep hybridity, co-operation, education and leisure. More simply, we wanted to create a space not designated to a singular labor function, but reflecting our complete selves as art laborers, educators, music makers, caregivers, partners, etc..

The primary focus of the installation was a chair constructed out of a painting that also functioned as a speaker. Because of its constuction, it was mainly usable for more leisurally activities such as reading and sleeping.

Another highlight was a with a child’s small place space under it, decorated with a painting under the table. Other pieces included arrangements of repurposed objects. A work palette becomes a table as well as a speaker, with an origami bowl placed on top (which could be refolded into numerous other forms).