step OUTSIDE your box.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX
A collaborative piece by Lucas Geronimas, David Horvitz and The Black Hole Space

When:
March 26th, 3PM-7PM

Where:
Soo Visual Arts Center
2640 Lyndale Avenue
South Minneapolis, MN
55408 612-871-2263

What's this all about?

The premise is simple: write your guess for what's inside the box on a paper ballot and insert it into the box. Each participant’s guess counts as a vote that will determine what is inside the box once the game ends. Through this process, the artists hope to use The Box Game to make a thought-experiment tangible. The Box Game is the first stage of Horvitz and Geronimas’s larger project What’s in the Box? The game is also the inaugural exhibition for the Black Hole Space, a traveling art venue conceived by Joshua Kit Clayton and curated by Terri C. Smith.

Answers received during The Box Game tour will be compiled and analyzed during the artists’ ten-day residency at the nascent Madiman Arts Interaction Center in New Haven, CT. The artists will have access to data analysis software and the advice of Yale faculty as they parlay the guesses from the game into the democratically desired object. In the end, Horvitz and Geronimas will exhibit their created “answer” as well as ephemera from the tour and residency. This performative art project highlights how constantly changing states only become 'real' once observed. What’s in the Box is also designed to question the ability of objective methods (the survey, analysis of data) to produce successful artworks. The Box Game asks, “What does democracy do for art, and science?”