interactive work

Balance Due

Balance Due, an interactive installation, invites the public to co-create a data sculpture by adding their own labor hours to the piece. By examining their own workloads, and those of partners and friends, the participatory experience gives people new insights about how they fit in to the larger labor landscape. Visitors estimate the number of hours they spend on work every week, then add that number of stones to an individual clear, plastic sphere. Their personal time capsule is then dropped into one of 23 transparent pillars arrayed in the gallery space.

The Weight of Your World

The Weight of Your World, an interactive event, lets visitors have their portrait taken wearing or carrying a custom-generated sculpture of their working hours. Participants estimate how much time they spend on paid labor and unpaid labor. Then they are handed that same weight in stones - one pound for every hour worked - and encouraged to (literally) shoulder the burden of their labor in whatever way they see fit.

By examining their own workloads and those of the people in their lives, viewers are asked to confront issues of equity, partnership, and community.