Series of Reveals/Drifting Encyclopedia
Presented by:
Arts Brookfield/Brookfield Properties
New York, NY ……… 2010-2012
a lavish delight for the senses
The Village Voice
Working with sites and real estate partners to amplify and animate their spaces has been an exciting and key part of my practice for decades. I particularly love creating site-specific work. I love the challenge of understanding how a partner hopes to enliven their space, and then designing an invitation and offering that can transform these spaces into destinations for visitors.
A Series of Reveals and The Drifting Encyclopedia were created for Arts Brookfield as activations to animate their public spaces. Both projects were overwhelming successes, increasing foot traffic, visitation, and garnering attention from press and cultural outlets.
Both were environmental installations that invited guests into dense, evocative worlds. A Series of Reveals animated a storefront at One New York Plaza, starting with a pinhole aperture in a blacked-out window, which slowly opened over 10 weeks, and then further developed the content and space for audiences to venture further and deeper “down the rabbit hole.” This installation artwork preceded the site-specific Looking Glass and the eventual work that became our critically acclaimed, long-running immersive hit, Then She Fell.
The Drifting Encyclopedia was housed in the Courtyard Gallery of the World Financial Center/Brookfield Place. Part victorian cabinet of curiosities, part roadside attraction, this immersive art installation housed exhibits that contemplated the themes of unlikely connections and the actual, illusory, and anomalous nature of love.
