Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space Fall 2012 Crystal Z. Campbell & Yeon Ji Yoo
Meet the Artists: Saturday, Sept 1, 1:30PMIn the early fall, Crystal Z. Campbell and Yeon Ji Yoo engage the Sunroom Project Space in Glyndor House at Wave Hill with site-specific works inspired by local social and natural history.
Campbell’s installation, Usable Pasts, critically examines historical material, exploring the gaps in our social and cultural collective memory. Finding little information on the workers, servants and possible slaves who helped maintain the property of Wave Hill, Campbell undertakes a hypothetical excavation, exhuming “artifacts” from Wave Hill’s past to revive