The Waiting Room: lost and found is a mixed media installation that combines sculpture, sound and image. As a conceptual framework for this exploration, the medical waiting room provides a psychologically rich context. This is the place where people wait to interface with the medical system, where patients are processed before testing, diagnosis, consultation or treatment begins. Evoking this environment is a series of distinct tableaus. The focal point of each is a hybridized chair composed of found and sculptural elements that embody a particular health issue. “Lost” and/or “Found” items of specifically designed, ambiguously functioning clothing are traces of inhabitants past and future. Visitors are invited to sit adjacent to each sculptural chair on a ‘blank,’ unaltered chair, where they can listen to recorded interview excerpts and sound compositions that provide intimate and expanded perspectives, or multiple ‘voices’ for each health issue. In this position, viewers are made participants in the waiting community.
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