PROJECT ROOM A
Josef Astor’s THESIS CLASS
FEATURING WORK BY:
Lexie Avram, Kate Brennan, Carley Brockwell, Qiaofeng Cai, Rachael Cho, Shangyu Li, Tiger Ling, Malkah Manouel, Brittany Oxley, Timothy Stypulkowski, Shukun Wang, Wenlan Wang, Mari Williams, Tessa Woods
STUDENT CURATORS:
Tiger Ling and Brittany Oxley
Human skin / hide protects / hides.
Does scratching through surface emulsion reveal what lies beneath ?
No, but the action of doing it can
Can I feel engaged when living just under the surface.
Or only with deeper dives that deform / exorcise / resurrect
Is a less conscious state more present / authentic when presenting as an altered self
Do imposed structures constrain my nature / present obstacles. or do I ?
Can I escape by contorting / disengaging my body / mind
A cardboard landscape with candy floss coating tastes like a more digestible world.
Can I survive when I'm seduced by a barrage of deceiving pixel-hearts
All tubers and fungi still welcome to a quarantined room divider
For a time warped scroll through our disconnected / clashing cultures.
We connect.
With thanks to all in our class,
—Josef Astor
PROJECT ROOM B
PROJECT ROOM C
PROJECT ROOM D
PROJECT ROOM F
PROJECT ROOM E
PROJECT ROOM G