When I am here, what do I do? (2018)
Sanded wall, paint dust, notebook

During the week before the opening I physically experimented with the gallery space to study the surfaces and structures of Boxcopy. I found that the space was like a cold container, unresponsive to my activities, designed to have traces of bodies and art easily removed. In response, I decided to find a way to physically manipulate already existing elements of the space that would ordinarily be standard, uninterrupted aspects of a white-cube gallery. This intervention involved completely sanding back one of the gallery walls and arranging the sanded paint on the floor. The work was accompanied by a journal I wrote documenting my responses to my experimentation, my thoughts leading up to the intervention and some responses during the process of intervening in the space.

I interpret the physical spaces of institutional art as manifestations of institutional logics, and that the physical spaces also manifest these logics. By experimenting with the physical space, I aimed to somatically study my experience of and participation in institutional art.