Operation Red Tape

Dustin McGahan

Dustin McGahan explores overtones of frustration, antipathy, and ambivalence within American social attitudes through the construction of a futile devices. The "Red Tape Machine", a symbol of the average attitude toward large corporate and governmental systems, seeks to remind us of our distaste for obfuscation, complexity and inefficiency by warning you of impending "BUREAUHAZARD".

Timed Change

Matthew Slaats

Timed Change is a game about making small differences. Participants are asked to go out in the city and make a positive change to their environment. This is timed using a stop watch and documented using a polaroid camera. After returning to the gallery, you will write your name, the change and time on the photo before placing it in the suitcase. The fastest time and best change will be the winner. I bet that I can beat you? http://www.matthewslaats.com

Psychological Prosthetics

Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Psychological Prosthetics provides a range of services to discretely handle your emotional baggage in political times. From our 30 second Rant Recorder™ and instant PP Band-aid relief™, to our custom designed suitcases, we explore relationships between emotional health, happiness, consumption and the political state.

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Security Devices

Sara Dierck

Tools provide safety and a feeling of well-being. Sara Dierck creates interactive sculptures in the shape of tools, specifically concerning fear and security. Sara gives spectators the chance to use the objects she makes, and, as part of Left Luggage, the opportunity to take some home. http://saradierck.com

Carrier

Paul Hazelton
Carrier

A transparent suitcase containing shadowy objects of dust, how one might expect to see a suitcase through an x-ray security screening system at the airport. It’s as though the x-rays, leaving only the coatings of dust, had completely disintegrated the actual objects. With the ever-increasing invasiveness of technology, you wonder from where the threat will come.

Transit Camouflage

Gretchen Vitamvas

Gallery visitors will be able to check out briefcases containing L Wear: coveralls printed with a graphic camouflage design inspired by the interior of L train cars and also military camouflage. Participants will simply ride the train and “blend in” to the car’s confined space –the suit a visual representation of a desire for security, both physical and emotional. The literal blending of the L Wear suit, and also its stand-out oddity are meant to encourage the captive audience to consider their own personal presentation, the uniforms they wear to blend in and be accepted, and how they read others based on appearance. visit subwearnyc.com

Travel Case for Lost Maples

Mark Schatz

In an otherwise dry and rocky region in Texas there exists an isolated forest of Maple Trees surviving in a moist micro-climate. Mark Schatz, a midwesterner now living in Texas, too, is meticulously crafting custom travel cases for these trees to raise the idea of displacement and the connections felt between individuals and regional landscapes.

www.markandheather.com
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