Scion Presents ‘ROOMS’

This past Saturday night, Scion unveiled a simple yet ingenious plan for taking interactive art in a new and completely schizophrenic direction: let a number of groundbreaking installation artists into the warehouse, have them take apart the place, and let them build their own respective rooms, designed and perfected to their own preference and according to whatever childhood trauma scarred them for life. You had the one guy with his steam-vacuumed carpeting, and endless collection of VHS videotapes, brown wood paneling, and projector-screen television; another was Justin Van Hoy, who decorated his pristine white room with Karl Malone and Michael Jordan posters, complete with early 90s television set and a built-in VHS player; Rocky Grimes designed his space to look like an elementary school classroom from Fast Times at Ridgemont High — complete with 80s pop art, desks, chalkboard and the animated silhouette of a teacher scrawling some invisible and thoroughly pointless lesson.

Then there was Bill Daniel, who built himself a vintage punk-rock room for the angsty teenager circa 1980, complete with handed-down 1960s television. Yet another room, courtesy of Dan Monick and Caitlin Reilly, was designed to look exactly like a train, with lightboxes illuminating photos of a real subway, to give you that tentative feeling as you wait to catch Pelham 123. Adam Wallacavage must have looked to The Munsters for inspiration; his living room display is a mixture of gothic and surrealist design that looked like something Morticia and Gomez would be happiest in. With guest designers such as Dueling VHS (sensing a theme yet?), there’s a wide variety of minds and moods to check out. You can view the below link and trailer for a taste of what the exhibit has to offer.