Artist in Residence at Broad Institute: Working in the Conference Room

I started my Artist in Residence at the Broad Institute in April. In the beginning, I didn't have a studio that I could work on art. I was given a workstation on the second floor with windows. It was nice and worked well when I had to study for the Human Subjects test. (All the Broad employees are required to take this test and must pass. I'm happy to report that I passed with 85% score.) But I couldn't do much else and it was too confined for what I wanted to make.

So, for the first couple of months of my residence at Broad, I did what I called deep observation by walking around the Institute everyday. I wondered around the building at night and traced the writings that were left on the whiteboard. In the copy room, I started making lots of copies of what I've traced, and I took over a conference room as my studio. I spread out papers on a gigantic conference room table, started cutting, pasting and tracing the copies.

This is what I did in the conference room earlier, and some of these "sketches" are now making into much larger work. At the bottom, you'll see a short video showing how images interact from a page to another page.

Notebook: Work in Progress from Naoe Suzuki on Vimeo.