RSNBRG

RSNBRG was an installation at Rosenberg Gallery in New York, from 7 to 18 April 2010. I curated it and showed work in it, and I designed the space and coordinated the events.

We rebuilt the room. A new plywood floor went down in angled sections inside white walls, and bare bulbs hung from a rail near the ceiling. The room was planned in a SketchUp model and measured floor plans before it was built.

A corner of the gallery with white walls, a plywood floor laid in angled sections, a metal rail along the wall and bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling. — The room, 17 April 2010.

The invitation was a triangular card that spelled the name out as R S NB RG. The photographs show the room in use through the run: people moving through it on 7 April, a full opening on 8 April, and an evening on 16 April lit orange, with people sitting on the floor. On 17 April I photographed it empty.

A mirrored dome mounted on the ceiling between two brass rails, reflecting the room below. — A mirrored dome on the ceiling.

Open double doors leading into the white room with its angled plywood floor. — The way in.

It was my first project with code in it. A mentor built its app, and I stayed at a distance from the development.

Photographs, April 2010

The orange-lit evening, a circle of people reflected small in a ceiling dome.

The plywood floor from above, its triangulated seams.

Floor-level view across the plywood toward the double doors.

A ceiling corner with a brass rail and dome.

Black-and-white ceiling geometry with a hanging dome.

A floor corner where the seams meet the white walls.

High wide view of the rails, bulbs and white walls.

Looking up at the ceiling beams, rail and dome.

Opening night, the crowd reflected tiny in a dome under a bulb.

Through the doorway into the empty room.

A performer's legs walking across the plywood.

Black-and-white view of an empty corner and a single bulb.