Areas for Action

In October 2015, Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Herring collaborated with several Utah County art educators and institutions. To engage hundreds of high school and college students, he employed Areas for Action, a performance structure that asks participants to engage in open-ended and temporal creative action with a limited scope of materials in a designated space. Each group began with two or three volunteers, who acted as the site for a temporary, living sculpture. From there, other participants were asked to respond to the situation with simple, everyday materials to transform the environment, fostering experimentation, play, and exploration of the possibilities that might unfold in such a unique situation.