Curator Tour + Reception: May 16th, 12pm-1pm Witnessing and attempting to comprehend China’s controversial response to COVID-19 over the past three years from a geographically distant yet culturally and emotionally intimate standpoint, I have grappled with multiple perspectives, sometimes as an insider, sometimes as an outsider, and most of the time as an impostor to both. As I continually query the incoherence of my positionality, I find myself in an obscure middle ground where my voice is filtered as inauthentic and unheeded. I ask myself: What should I do? What can I do? This project is an effort to give […]

The target at 180 Somerville Avenue is nothing special. As a place to observe adjacent spaces and events however, its boring and typical department store features become a meaningful backdrop to question patterns of daily life, street infrastructure, urban development and the multiple roles a parking lot plays within and in between these things. The photographs in this work are at once a survey, critique and minor celebration of a target parking lot and everyday urban relationships that generate questions rather than answers. Beginning at the parking lot, they record the range of fleeting events and more permanent ones; from […]

  Building on 15 years of our experience in designing and creating the most cutting edge interaction – fusion between the brain and computer, brain-computer interface, in our project NeuraFutures we are touching upon implanting memories, reading your dreams while you sleep and communicating a thought between two different people throughout the continents. We analyzed 450+ books, movies, TV shows to give our audience a better picture of what brain computer interfaces are and are not. From science to science fiction, from 1641’s brain in a jar to 2021’s Rick and Morty’s memory transfer helmet. We explore together with our […]

Boston’s Little Syria (also known as Syriatown), thrived between the 1880s and 1950s in today’s Chinatown and South End, yet few Bostonians are familiar with it. Drawing from photographs, property maps, and memoirs of Syrian- and Lebanese-Americans, this exhibition narrates the history of a neighborhood which is nearly invisible today. The buildings of Little Syria–from Gridley J.F. Bryant’s Greek Revival Quincy Grammar School to the retro 1970s Syrian Sahara Restaurant–make up not just the history of one neighborhood, but are also important sites in Boston’s architectural past, present, and future. This exhibition follows the path of immigrants who fled blight […]

Reception: September 14, 2022, 4-6pm in Rotch Library Gallery Wojnarowicz in Cambridge is a series of photographic portraits composed in response to David Wojnarowicz’s Rimbaud in New York series, in which the artist was photographed wearing a mask of the transgressive French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Wojnarowicz in Cambridge brings queer visibility into the public sphere, inviting viewers to consider identity—as something constructed, as something fluid and changeable—so that the current dialogue (and debate) about identity politics becomes more nuanced, more inclusive, more representative. The photographic images in the Wojnarowicz in Cambridge series were taken using an iPhone and several disposable […]

This exhibition is of paintings by MIT alumna Susan E. Schur. Her work utilizes various techniques of employing oil paint on paper and board to create works that provide exciting, multi-layer visual experiences, with each viewer becoming an active participant in the realization of the vision presented. The impact for a beholder, therefore, can be a rich, dynamic happening. The images seen in her paintings can range from the subtle and mystical to the bold and dramatic. In the New England region, showings of her works have included solo exhibitions at Harvard’s Gutman Gallery, the Nashua Arts & Science Center, […]

Reception: March 11, 5-6pm Soft City is a large-scale textile series that maps the urban fabric of Black neighborhoods in the Boston area. The tapestries map historic (redlined) and contemporary Black neighborhoods, including Roxbury, Dorchester, and East Cambridge. The information mapped tells the story of the past, present and future of Black residents, and the ecological resilience of the neighborhoods they live in. Hard (impervious) and soft (pervious) land uses are codified using colors with overlays of future tree plantings and flood zones on the tapestry. The softness and materiality of tufting interrogates the traditional top-down approach to space planning […]

The Shingles Nest is a small pavilion installation that inhabits the Rotch Library and serves as a reading corner; visitors are invited to sit inside and enjoy the privacy and warmth of the wooden cocoon. The project is based on the local mining of material waste streams and proposes a shingling system as an assembly strategy that could extend to the upcycling of any sheet material offcuts. The structure is a self-supporting shingle assembly composed of wooden planks of different sizes salvaged from the recycling stream of heavy-duty pallets on campus. The planks are cleaned, and the wood is re-valuated […]