bronx blue bedroom
site specific installation
The Bronx Blue Bedroom Project was an apartment gallery featuring solo artist projects, organized and curated by artist Blanka Amezkua in 2008 and 2009.
For the final installation and show at the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project, a live video feed
of what appeared to be the project room was displayed in the adjacent living room of the apartment. The
image on the monitor was actually of an identical room upstairs, painted blue to match the project room.
The project room space itself was left empty.
The door to the project room was kept closed, and therefore people inside the project room effectively
disappeared from view, as they could not be seen on the video monitor.
The audience spent time inside the project room looking for the art that they were accustomed to
experiencing in that room, looking for the camera, and examining the marks left on the walls from
previous shows. One person pretended to light a cigarette to test if anyone would come in and stop him,
and even semi-stripped, thinking that those in the living room could see him on the monitor.
The installation encouraged the audience to interact with each other while they figured out the puzzle. It
took a long time for many to figure out that the image on the monitor was not of the project room itself.
Video produced by Matthew Huisman and reported by Elif Ince and Matthew Huisman for The Bronx Ink, a project of the Columbia Journalism School.
