As part of a Curatorial Practices course in Fall 2018, I participated in developing and designing a pop-up exhibit, “Elevator Pitch: Objects that Matter”, based on Orhan Parmuk’s “A Modest Manifesto for Museums”. Inspired by the work I had produced at a workshop, “Design as Creative Process” at the Columbus Area Arts Council, my group and I created two zines posing questions to viewers about how they could interpret their own objects in the same light as museum artifacts.
The guidelines of the project limited the exhibition spaces to the interior of the Cavanaugh Hall building, on the IUPUI campus. Our group decided to use one of the elevators for the pop-up.
Using the elevator forced people to interact with us or the exhibit materials, which was a more active take on museum viewership than most.