Waiting Room (Transposed)

Waiting Room (Transposed) is an ordinary medical waiting room filled with specific and mundane details, which has been abruptly cut in half and rearranged, meeting in the middle at what is actually its opposing edges. This shows up clearly in the Cover Your Cough poster, which is exactly half in English and half in Spanish. Other materials are also cut: fanned magazines, framed artwork, chairs, books, a pen on the floor. The books’ titles heighten the narrative (“Enormous Changes at the Last Minute” and “The Circular Functions”).

To heighten the conceit, I created realistic but humorous paperwork, including a HIPPA form and two brochures.  HIPPA text excerpt: "What the artist may do with health information: The artist may not use health information about you/your child.  The artist respects your privacy.  She simply wants to continue the conceit of a hospital waiting room and thus include paperwork.  The artist will also not share health information about you/your child collected during the exhibition with the following: 1. Her neighbours.  2. Actual hospitals."

This installation can operate as a satisfying exercise in mental reassembly, but is also a visual representation of the emotional experience of time within such waiting rooms.  A disjointed, fragmented, seemingly endless loop which ends abruptly when you leave, and if you go back, seems to have never stopped.