Labor Camp : Study Room: A / B

Labor Camp Study Room : A / B Altered furniture, electronics, sound, video, and printed matter Installation at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis June 09 - September 23, 2007 Labor Camp Study Room : A / B is the first installment of the series of Study Rooms developed by Szyhalski as a physical platform for presentation of the works within the framework of the Labor Camp Project. The installations consists of two environments constructed on two sides of a single wall. Study Room A (Fig. 01) presents a selection of Labor Camp Orchestra sound works, and a continuous variable video stream. Study Room B (Fig. 03) allows the users to explore a vast archive of archival recordings documenting a wide range of extreme of historical phenomena.








Fig. 01 : Study Room A (front wall)




Fig. 02 : Study Room A / B (ephemera distributed throughout the exhibition)







Fig. 03 : Study Room B (back wall)

Additional materials: Labor Camp Study Room: C Labor Camp Study Room videos Manure and Poetry: An Evening with the Labor Camp Orchestra