2010
Portable garage frames, tarps, carpet, soundproofing,
batteries, inverter, projection screen, camping chairs
12 × 25 × 16 ft
Exhibitions typically run for one to three months, yet the support structures built to house them are constructed as more or less permanent architecture—metal studs, drywall, plaster, paint. This is done to help viewers imagine that the work contained within will exist forever. To focus on this rhetorical device, I built a projection room for an exhibition out of portable garage frames and tarps, powered by batteries and an inverter. Viewers could then imagine the projection room/tent as existing elsewhere, separate from the gallery.
Autonomous Projection Tent has been used to screen both Epic Journey and A Sign in the Northwest Passage (Video). It can be used to screen other works with my curatorial approval.