pop up lunch experience on a vacant lot in Columbus, Ohio, 2011


pop up lunch experience on a vacant lot in Columbus, Ohio, 2011
MFA thesis project, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design
2012
6 months of documenting the coming and goings/reclaimings by human, animal and plant communities on two abandoned lots–Value City Furniture and Consumer Square, Columbus Ohio.
Space reconstructed as a 4-channel hour-long continuous loop.
With Liz Roberts
2016 – 2019
We have worked with a selection of how-to diagrams from a survivalist text since 2016, returning to the source material and developing different iterations of responses to it: acting out, reproducing, printing, layering. We are thinking about survival, audience, and the evolution of collaboration and trust over time.
Installation at the Growlery, San Francisco, October 2019
AKA: Strip Malls are the Plains/Lonely Like a Highway
January–February, 2014
Roy G Biv, Columbus, OH
Elena Harvey Collins and Liz Roberts
All images Stephen Takacs
Downward Dishwasher is comedic critique of personal wellness as a consumer good.
July 2015
Installation for the sunroom, an exhibition series in a private home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Organized by Thea Spittle
Collaboration with Liz Roberts
Video stills
5-channel video projection, 03:08
An exploded diagram of a film is a good analog for this installation. The process of filmmaking—including research, screenplay writing, location scouting, set production, composing a shot—becomes invisible in the final production. In Soft Regards, the peripheral activities that go into the production of filmic space, place, and time are abstracted and extended; the play of real and unreal is centered.
An exploded diagram of a film is a good analog for this installation. The process of filmmaking—including research, screenplay writing, location scouting, set production, composing a shot—becomes invisible in the final production. In Soft Regards, the peripheral activities that go into the production of filmic space, place, and time are abstracted and extended; the play of real and unreal is centered.