Check out these amazing installation shots of Hillerbrand+Magsamen's Devices for Extra Ordinary at 125 Maiden Lane! Come by to see their amazing work in person!
Hillerbrand+Magsamen's site-specific installation Devices for Extra Ordinary utilizes sculpture, video and photo to present invented objects that comment on their family structure and the modes of communication between the artists and their two children. H+M's practice employs Fluxus ideas to incorporate humor, performance, and everyday objects in order to have a conversation about family dynamics, suburban life, and American consumer excess. Drawing on the literary concept of Homo Faber – that human beings are able to control their fate and environment through tools – H+M's invented objects animate banal items in an attempt to survive and cope in a world of personal and political turmoil. In the lobby of 125 Maiden Lane, H+M's Devices for Extra Ordinary presents several of these constructed devices as objects to interact with, displayed on modified 'workbenches' as tools for use. The accompanying photography and video displays act as incomplete user manuals, instructing the viewer on how to deploy these objects as a means towards communication, connection and transformation.
Photos by Sol Hashemi.
