About: MAKE MORE ROOM (in development)

The questions are:

1/ Who are you supposed to be?
2/ Who do you know yourself to be?

1/ How do people see you?
2/ How is that picture lacking?

1/ How would you, given the chance, make more room for yourself?
2/ How would you, given the chance, make more room for others?

It all started…

during Shelter in Place when I was feeling cramped inside my home. I was considering what the many social movements erupting had in common. They seemed to be referring to a cramped experience of self. People were frustrated that they were not able to be themselves or be accepted as their full selves. Their contributions were limited. They were at times, fatally punished for venturing outside the often extremely narrow space allotted them.

It is very clear to us when we feel limitations being imposed on us. It is not so clear to us when they are imposed on the people around us. It takes deep empathy and compassion to feel that.

This installation offers the felt experience of pushing against one's limitations - imposed from within or without. It also offers the felt experience of standing in someone else’s shoes.

An option…

This installation can have an Ai element as if to say, “It no longer matters what your neighbors think. It only matters how the AI sees you.” After all, the AI is already deciding whether you should get the job, the mortgage, or the new credit card. How is this black box judging us? What does it see when we submit our application?

A practice…

Making more room for ourselves and others is a practice. I notice when I limit others. I notice when I limit myself. It takes conscious and concerted effort in both cases. We have to push against the stone walls of perception to liberate ourselves and others.

Collaborators…

Joanna Haigood, Choreographer
Jodi Lomask, Creative Director / Sculptor
Can Büyükberber, Visuals Director - Art Director
Vincent Naples, Ai Engineer

EO, Sound Engineer / Producer
Darina Simeonova, Drafter
Adam Puglielli, Fabricator
David Evan Harris, Ai Policy and Impact Advisor
Nick Porcino, Head of VR at Pixar, Advisor
Praneet Sharma, Apple Vision Pro Mo-cap Engineer