Student Work

Wax-sealed letters about intimacy were surreptitiously inserted into the pockets of used clothes at a thrift store

The idea of 'hope' embedded in bright yellow circles, unexpectedly popped up in public places

Body armor made to protect oneself when confronting the victimizing memories of a personal trauma (later turned into an instruction for others to make their own body armors)

Wearable piece made out of stockings, accompanied by a performance of asking people to fill up the stockings with sand, razor blades, and broken glass shards, representing the weight of gendered expectations

Traumatic memories both revealed and concealed through redacted text and diary pages burnt inside ceramic pieces (people were invited to walk on the ceramic pieces to see the text at the end of the corridor, thereby crushing the pieces in the process)

Modified underwear and other everyday objects creating a scene of domestic violence

Oral stories of LGBTQ people's experience with Christianity turned into an audio-visual piece

Student's own US military uniforms repurposed to make Perahan Tunban (a male clothing worn by men in north western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan)

Dinner table with a female torso as the main dish, problematizing the prevalent objectification and sexual consumption of female bodies

Playful parody of Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus as the student's self-portrait

A forgotten 19C cemetery for African Americans in Kokomo is suddenly accentuated by a long line of laundry with their names fluttering in the wind

Common Indiana "weeds" invited to a flower bed made out of repurposed fence wood

Single-channel video of a pond repeatedly disturbed and then returning undisturbed

Sound instrument composed of natural materials (when water is poured from the top, the cascading structure with gravel creates sounds like a quiet brook)

Office building corridor intervened by a sudden appearance of vines

Based on the verb, to burn, a plate of various ingredients exposed to different stages of burning invites participants to explore their smell, touch, and taste

Participants are invited to wear mittens and constraining belts, while performing menial tasks surrounded by various timers producing an anxiety-provoking soundscape

Focusing on the verb, to cut, the student created a temporary blockage in a hallway where participants are invited to cut their way through the unexpected boundary

Three-dimensional modeling exercise of replicating natural objects using only paper and glue

Students' own bodies expressed in diverse metaphors