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project:
African American History Museum
location: Indianapolis
involvement: full, student work
date: 2002 May
Excerpt
from exhibit text: In order to understand how this destructive
moment in history will materialize within the container, it is important
to understand the resolve of the internal struggle that occurs between
the museum and the site. The intertwining of several profoundly disparate
timelines only magnifies this struggle and complicates the complicated.
The design of the structure involves finding an intersection, or intersections
of these varying lines of time, and translating the nodes into a container
of existing time, and the yet impressionable. However the container must
react sensitively and acutely in response to the opportunities the site
has and will reveal within its line.
While
the exhibit experience must materialize within a container, it must not
be limited to the physical boundaries of a structure. The experience transcends
the built. The experience is obligated to breach the spirit of a patron
and be imprinted on that timeline in order to live. It is in this manner
the lines continue to extend through additional intersections.
The
exhibition deconstructs the destruction, leaving slivers of clouded memories
of what was once essentially prominent. Portals shear the planes of time
providing the opening to cogitate the countless lines intensifying the
destruction. As the lines of time are traversed the exhibition disappears
and the apocalyptic propinquity blinds.
