Verbal Description: Introduction

Narrator: When you step off of the elevators, you will be confronted by a wall with the Josh Kline exhibition information. This survey exhibition, Project for a New American Century, uses immersive installations of video, sculpture, photography, and design to explore contemporary politics of labor, class, automation, disease, and democracy. To the right of the entrance way is a sign that reads "Please watch your step. Several galleries include floor coverings that may be slippery or uneven". There is low lighting throughout due to projected video and the artist intends for viewers to weave around sculptures so there are many objects in space throughout the exhibition. Each object has approximately five feet distance in between to navigate around the artworks.

In the hallway near the wall text there are four teletubby mannequins with videos placed in the stomach. These videos are paired with headphones and benches. Moving into the first gallery, you will encounter a series of video interviews, as well as multiple sculptures from Kline’s “Blue Collar” series, including trays, boxes, and carts with 3-D printed arms, legs, and heads. The next gallery (the floor and walls of which are colored emergency orange) feature new life-size tent sculptures containing video monitors inside playing interviews with imagined climate refugees. These are meant to be watched from outside of the tents. Please do not enter.

After weaving through this installation of tents, the final gallery on this floor is a very dimly lit room, which is dark green in color and contains a 16mm film projected onto the south wall. The projector rests on a custom orange stand and is surrounded by low bins meant for sitting. The floor is a tarp material and could be slippery. The exit can be found at the north end, covered by a curtain.