Domestic Carnival

2012-2013

Custom trailer, oak flooring, wallpaper, steel, altered dinette set, light chaser circuit, cabochon carnival lights, and audio

H 9’ x L 16’ x D 20’

Domestic Carnival as installed in (In)Habitation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in 2013.

Photo Credit: Corine Vermeulen, MoCAD 2013

Domestic Carnival is an ongoing project that takes the specific rooms of a home and re-presents them as flashing amusement park rides, transforming intimate interior spaces into objects of mass spectacle. Within the room dark and foreboding music, two hundred pulsing lights, steel joists, and a trailer combine with a dining room table, chairs, and oak hardwood flooring to create a carnival that is both familiar and uncanny. The apparatus is engineered like a carnival ride; the entire sculpture is mounted on a custom trailer that collapses for transportation to its next destination.