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video theater for the FIT museum

a video theater for an early RECYCLE exhibition curated by artist Bobby Hansson

installed

1996

location

FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology, Chelsea, New York

client

FIT - Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

curated by

Suzy Slesin, Zette Emmons and Bobby Hansson

awards

concept & vision

a fully upcycled structure acts as the core of this very early concern with recycling, as a central video theatre to learn about the environment and creative responses by artists

design & architecture

8 refrigerators are lifted by a steel scaffolding and wood-stud structure. Naked TV sets are inserted in their open doors, screens toward the inside, to create a circle of video images as watched from the center of the structure

program & use

visitors enter this theater and sit on horizontal pipes wrapped with convoluted foam to watch the video feed, in a shared and slightly uncomfortable viewing experience

impact & significance

8 truly messed-up refrigerators and 8 truly old TV-sets reset our posture toward things dismissed, very early on, when the world UPCYCLE was not around

Dec 12, 2025

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND