Piles.
Design/Construction/Documentation
by Lindsey A. Wolkowicz
Performance/Video Editing by Dillon Paul

Exhibited as a part of Cosms, Dashboard Co-Op, Atlanta, GA

Piles consisted of two different installations - one of all of the building materials found in the artist’s studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the other in the warehouse space within which the fellows selected by Dashboard Co-Op exhibited their work. The artist’s collaborator, Dillon Paul, improvised a movement performance within the built environment in the artist’s studio which was filmed wherein she carefully examined the mess in the room, moving with intention and care through the detritus of the space. In the Atlanta construction, and edit of that documented performance was played back a wall built to project outward from a corner into the space, leaving a wedge of space open behind it.

The artist sourced furniture and building materials in Atlanta that alluded back to the previously recorded performance, arranging them behind the wall as though that space were an attic or a closet were objects of the past are kept in disarray and narrowly hidden from the clean, outward facing room. These objects, seemingly stashed away or discarded, were arranged with a creating a sense of both chaos and fragility in their precarious placement. Hidden deep behind the wall, an uncertain light source enhanced the forced perspective of the objects’ arrangement while adding to the perceived threat that they could spill out into the present at any moment causing everything piled up behind the wall to collapse and be revealed.

Piles is a result of Movement + Stillness; the ongoing research of Lindsey Wolkowicz and her partner/ collaborator Dillon Paul.