MeMoSa Installation: My Improbable Room
Student Artist-in-Residence Xinyu (Kelly) Yan presents: My Improbable Room
Sunday, April 26th | Installation 3pm - 8 PM
Live performance and workshop 7 PM
Location: The Movement Lab (Barnard College, Milstein Lower Level LL020)
My Improbable room is the first act of my perceptual experiments in space-time-mattering, focusing on spatial disorientation. As a human geographer and urban planner, I read in every built environment an implicit score of pedestrian movement: often upright, at eye-level, with an invisible buffer. So where do our bodies go when interior/exterior, top/down, periphery/center no longer make sense? I invite you to dream with me in a room that couldn’t possibly exist on earth: for one evening let us make believe there are ocean waves rolling under the carpet, pretend you can catch the moon in a teacup, and look out from every window to see a different world from our past, without beginning or end.
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To visit, please RSVP at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main campus entrance (3009 Broadway).
Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs have automatic campus access and can walk in.
Xinyu Kelly Yan is a human geographer from Shanghai practicing time-based media. She makes ambient drones with analog synthesizers, tape, and field recordings, and has performed around Providence, Rhode Island, where she calls her second home. Fascinated by material decay and liminal spaces, he also makes videos and images documenting urban ruination. Her project will be a playful exploration of algorithmic improvisation through touch-activated controllers and movement instructions alongside a multichannel video installation. She is currently an urban planning student at GSAPP.