To keep with the “educational” theme provided by ACE, REVENGE 101 is a project that consists of the basic Gallery Kit design in modular and deconstructed form. Both art history and curatorial studies are analyzed through a semi-installed “revenge” themed exhibition and a projected video organized in the spirit of a tele-course lecture. A voice over delivered by Dr. Christopher Parr, a religious studies professor at Webster University articulates a text written by one of the accusers of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.  The presentation in the video explores the theme of crime, vengeance and vandalism through images from popular culture, art history, cinema, and memorable moments in photojournalism all depicting both famous and infamous acts of revenge. This combination is a play on themed research, convoluted art lectures, ambitious curatorial endeavors, and exhibition design that is both humorous and uncanny.

In its current state, Isolation Room/Gallery Kit in St. Louis is a box built at 7’ x 7’x 9’  that occupies the curators’ dining room plus a carefully selected drawing, painting or sculpture. The Gallery Kit ideally can be built in any existing interior space at minimal “DIY’ cost. The gallery kit re-imagines the ideal integration between art and life, public and private. This evolving project focuses on one artwork per exhibition cycle having each piece placed in a physical state of quarantine, situated in a modular viewing space inviting an extended period of contemplation. Building on an ongoing interest in containment, the constructed room allows for the smallest possible collaboration between the gallery space, curator, artist and audience. At its core one work stands in isolation providing an opportunity to protect work from a forced theme, loose contextualization or commercial exploitation. By placing the individual piece as a subject in isolation the work is then encouraged to exist and be perceived from an aesthetic standpoint.