EXTENDED USE / HONOR

Entry Name: Art Farm | Red Shed Video Lounge, Marquette, Nebraska
Firm: Min | Day
Owner: Art Farm; Ed Dadey, Director
Photographer: Larry Gawel

Both artwork and design work produced at [institution] tackle the multiple histories of objects (buildings), reinterpret them, give them new life and new narratives. As part of a strategy for the sustainable development, the reuse of existing materials often involves a radical juxtaposition of new and old forms. The Red Shed is representative of this process and the shared attitude towards objects that emerges from diverse practices at [institution].

We conceived the interior as a continuous surface that would accommodate all programmatic and technical requirements of the new media gallery.  The foam surface wraps the interior and is at once floor, wall, seat, bed, lounger and projection surface. The space challenges users to find their own way to inhabit it – one can sit in an area formed for upright sitting or lie on the soft floor…or find any position in between.

We temporarily installed this structure at an art museum as a focal point of an exhibition of our work for [institution]. The Shed now functions as a video gallery and a workspace for new media artists. However, the structure is now mobile; it can be relocated anywhere on the 40-acre site simply by dragging it with a tractor.