Cross-posted from Up at the Gate.
I’ve been watching Finishing School in action as they transform half of Gallery A into a “hot zone-themed wet lab” and the other half into a multimedia cluster for their installation, workshop and performance, M.O.L.D. that starts Sunday. Lots of plastic sheeting is involved, along with petri dishes, pipets, computers, surveillance cameras, video projectors – the whole works.
On Sunday, from 12-4pm during Open Studios, small groups of visitors will get to enter the wet lab and take part in a series of exercises and activities, constructing their own bioindicators, while other visitors can watch the instructional video and surveillance feeds from inside the lab. The event will also be streamed live via M.O.L.D. CAM to the Finishing School’s blog from 12-4.
Above – Ed Giardina and Brian Boyer staple plastic into a tunnel.
Above – Jason Plapp does some last minute polish on the animated informational video that viewers will see in the first part of the show.
Above – James Rojsirivat unboxing the security system. This thing is too much fun to play with – way too much fun.
Above – Jason Plapp and James Rojsirivat test camera and projector equipment in front of the surveillance cam projection.
Above – I photograph three Finishing School members as they scheme.
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M.O.L.D. was all that and a petri dish. And though you may scoff, I’m down with O.P.P…Other Peoples Pesticides. Somebody please give me some new slang.