Give & Take
North Gallery Exhibition, Spring 2022
with Clare Fentress and Katie Colford
Eschewing the white-cube presentations that typically occur within architectural contexts, Give and Take—a two-week-long installation at the Yale School of Architecture’s North Gallery is instead a participatory environment. It transforms the North Gallery into a new type of room solely for giving and receiving gifts, positing reciprocity, pleasure, and delight as key aspects of academic and intellectual life. Every School of Architecture student is invited by name to participate, and their engagement shapes the slow unfolding of the room over the course of the installation. By eliding the distinction between curator and visitor, Give and Take quietly challenges the competitive, hierarchical nature of architectural education and offers a counterpoint rooted in feminist praxes and relational aesthetics.
Yale School of Architecture Exhibitions Fund
Betty Wang, GD MFA ’22
Josh Greene, M.Arch I ‘23
Donor List:Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum American Folk Art MuseumArtist & Craftsman Supply
Bard Graduate Center
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Center for Collaborative Arts and Media FABSCRAP
Grey Matter Books Grey Matter Books
Haas Family Arts Library
Hull’s Art Supply & Framing
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
MoMA PS1
Noguchi Museum
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton University Press
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture University of Minnesota Press
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Yale Center for British Art
Yale School of Architecture
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale University Library
Yale University Press
North Gallery Exhibition, Spring 2022
with Clare Fentress and Katie Colford
Eschewing the white-cube presentations that typically occur within architectural contexts, Give and Take—a two-week-long installation at the Yale School of Architecture’s North Gallery is instead a participatory environment. It transforms the North Gallery into a new type of room solely for giving and receiving gifts, positing reciprocity, pleasure, and delight as key aspects of academic and intellectual life. Every School of Architecture student is invited by name to participate, and their engagement shapes the slow unfolding of the room over the course of the installation. By eliding the distinction between curator and visitor, Give and Take quietly challenges the competitive, hierarchical nature of architectural education and offers a counterpoint rooted in feminist praxes and relational aesthetics.
For Immersive Experience of the Space:
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=9NJG32vprQSSponsors:
Women Faculty ForumYale School of Architecture Exhibitions Fund
Graphic Design:
Claire Hungerford, GD MFA ’24Betty Wang, GD MFA ’22
Photography:
Brandon Lim, M.Arch I ’24Josh Greene, M.Arch I ‘23
Donor List:Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum American Folk Art MuseumArtist & Craftsman Supply
Bard Graduate Center
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Center for Collaborative Arts and Media FABSCRAP
Grey Matter Books Grey Matter Books
Haas Family Arts Library
Hull’s Art Supply & Framing
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
MoMA PS1
Noguchi Museum
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton University Press
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture University of Minnesota Press
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Yale Center for British Art
Yale School of Architecture
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale University Library
Yale University Press
