Lindsey Scherloum
Lindsey Peck Scherloum is a sculptor and media artist based in North Braddock, PA. She works in installation and time-based practices to create collaborative and participatory experiences that prompt stories and human connection around the objects, places and habits we take for granted. Home CV Teaching Philosophy Talk at SFAI140 My goal is to arouse stories within members of my audience that place their identities in the context of a material and social world. I am especially interested in creating spaces for stories unlike my own, and which are not yet part of mainstream discourse, and platforms for people to represent themselves and their own communities. I use what I call a prompt, or a framework through which audiences can reflect on their own experiences.
The prompt is the question, as well as the way to look at and organize the answers. I craft these parameters to create tension between objects, information, or people; it is in this space of tension, juxtaposition and mystery that humans are able to engage their own memories, ideas, and concerns in concert with others. Though I am often the facilitator, my aim, is not to give information, but to gather perspectives, offer processes to realize them in a material realm so they can be heard and understood by others. These forms uses my training in theater, learning research, language, anthropology and architecture, and my extensive, meandering, domestic and foreign travel. I am ultimately interested in people, the cultural assumptions we bring to decisions and judgements, the processes we need to understand ourselves, others and the objects and environments we take for granted.
“You use art to speak to people that we can't see. The thing about art is really there's no boundaries with art. There may be a language barrier, but you can still feel the feeling. There are still things that, without words, can be conveyed, such as feelings. A smile has no language. A frown doesn't have no language. Excitement doesn't have a language. So the importance of art is that it's a language that everybody can understand.”
— Lindsey Scherloum