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In collaboration with Ege Okal, Chet Moye Lubarsky
Exhibition from February 2 - 7, 2020
At Tjaden Hall Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
 
   
 
     
 
     

 

     
Untitled (Bread Curtain)
Bread, string, gold nails, baby powder
Bread baked by Ege Okal
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Five monitors were placed throughout the room; four featured unique playlists of found videos mixed with virtual flags rendered by Hyo-Jung Song, and one a compilation of Model UN conference videos by Curtis Ho.

List of found videos on monitors: 

         
 
     

Untitled (Rusted Water Cooler)

 

Midnight Crisis "Peacekeeper" Tees
Silkscreen on cotton

 



 

   
         



 
         
   

Untitled (Bookshelf)
Decommissioned library shelves, books, PDF printouts, artists' books by UBL, bread, telephone, computer monitor, speakers, drink glass, baby powder, carpet tiles, flour, yeast
Dimensions variable

         

           
   
       
 

 

 
Untitled (Brochure Stand)
Rotating brochure stand, various PDF printouts on accessing health insurance and health education tips from New York State and Cornell University (supplied by Chet Moye Lubarsky)
Dimensions variable
       
                 
   
       

Untitled (Houseframe)
Wood, bread, visitors' drawing and writing, gum, Midnight Crisis "Peacekeeper" Tees, found categorization tags from unspecified Cornell University office, drink glasses, housepaint, broken monitor, keyboard
Dimensions variable

   
         
   

Visitors to the exhibition were invited to draw and write on the houseframe, loosely instructed: 

"On the wood frame, please feel free to write either
1. A Question or concern - only questions or concerns - about the Real UN or Model UN
2. A love note to a budding crush
3. Or something completely irreverent"

       
 
     
   
         
   
         
   
         
   
         
     
             
   
Untitled (Breaded)
Laserjet print in glass display, bread, baby powder
Original photograph by Ege Okal

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Untitled (Diplomat's Breakfast Table)
Table, office chairs, artists' books, literature on bread, microphone, drink glass, handwritten notes, translator's earpiece, pens, bread
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Untitled (by Ege Okal)
Inkjet prints, housepaint
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Thank you to Jon Ladley of Cornell University Libraries Facilities, the R5 Recycling Center, and Alyssa Anderson for their generous time and energy in producing this exhibition.

 

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