Sensing Mount Auburn: A Landscape in Motion
May 9 @ 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Over the course of their residency, Gao and Molinski conducted meditative walks across the seasons, using devices and exercises created to disrupt habitual ways of seeing. These walks activated a multisensory awareness of the landscape, revealing how scent, touch, and sound can evoke memory and deepen spatial perception.
This exhibition will showcase the data collected from the Sensing Mount Auburn walks including abstract drawings, written impressions, and marks left by participants. It will also display BAC student works that investigate Mount Auburn’s literary, planar, and sectional layers through archival collage, binaural film, motion mapping, and sectional analysis.
Sensing Mount Auburn: A Landscape in Motion transforms Bigelow Chapel into a multi-sensory abstracted experience of the cemetery, offering a dynamic understanding of the landscape. By reconsidering Mount Auburn as both a space of passage and a space of pause, this exhibition asks: How do our memories inscribe themselves into space? What new rituals emerge when we experience landscape as an active, participatory medium rather than a static backdrop?
Bigelow Chapel
Free to all; No registration required
