Meesh Fradkin’s voice-activated sculpture listens to the formation of speech and explores the loss of meaning in buzzwords. Powered by a sonified dictionary composed of jargon, babbel questions positionality in the arts by bringing attention to who is participating in real time.
Suspended from the ceiling as multi-tiered wooden chandeliers with steel rods and plastic tubing, this installation emits sounds in response to words overheard in the gallery space. Fradkin’s installation invites visitors to consider how words are hollowed out by use, overuse, or misuse.
Carmen Papalia’s Pain Pals is an incubator for project development, creative practices, and community resources that both center care and approach pain as a generative experience. Papalia’s contribution here consists of objects and outcomes from a research and development process for a tabletop roleplaying game version of Pain Pals where players can self-define and set the terms around a solitary or social interaction. With Pain...