ViV (Variance Invariance): paintings shared for collaborative assembly, 2013
In collaboration with Judy Rushin and Chalet Comellas-Baker
Archival pigment print of temporary sculpture.
Dimensions variable
Comellas-Baker and I had the opportunity to participate in Rushin’s ViV project.
From Judy Rushin:
“Variance Invariance is part of a dialogue that addresses art objects as things that move between individuals and that illuminate and are illuminated by those who produce and exchange them… Like my project, Carapace, I have designed them to be dismantled and reconfigured again and again. These site-specific works have as much to do with their mobility between sites as they do with their destinations. Individual modules are aggregated into compositions for new exhibition layouts, then stacked and shipped, rendering them spatially and geographically untethered. From September 2013 to January 2014, Variance Invariance traveled to a series of individual participants who assembled the work according to their own preferences, documented it in their spaces, and shipped it back to me. By sharing the works privately with individuals and later in galleries and museums — alongside the project documentation — ViV is an experiment in collaborative design and alternative platforms for artistic engagement.”
