Faye Driscoll:
Come On In
2020
“Experiential training in how to inhabit this unbearable new world.” —Miriam Felton-Dansky
Commissioned by Walker Art Center, Driscoll’s first solo exhibition Come On In transforms the Walker’s seventh floor gallery into a space of sanctuary—designed in collaboration with Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin—and offers gallery goers an enveloping sensory experience. In a space awash with ambient sound and pulsating light, visitors are invited to take a state of repose and listen to individual soundtracks of Driscoll’s voice that guide their experience through a series of prompts.
These audio works, collectively titled Guided Choreography for the Living and the Dead, demand “rethinking the stakes of human contact at both the molecular and the systemic level,” (Miriam Felton-Dansky). As visitors follow her voice, they become a collection of slowly moving sculptures activating our innate capacity to be both object and subject, observer and and observed. Driscoll writes, “With Come On In I am interested in troubling our assumed borders of skin and flesh by drawing gallery-goers into a nexus of intangible relationships to self and other.”
ONLINE EXPERIENCE via WALKER ART CENTER
Please find a quiet and comfortable place to listen, put on headphones, and allow 15 minutes for this shared journey with the artist.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
May 2023 • da:ns focus at Esplanade Annexe Studio, Singapore
November 19, 2021–January 15, 2022 • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
October 8–November 6, 2021 • On the Boards, Seattle, WA
February 27–June 14, 2020 • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
COMMISSIONING & SUPPORT
Come On In was commissioned by Walker Art Center with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund.
Come On In is a project of Creative Capital.