2016 - 2017 See/Saw Collaboration

See/Saw was a collaborative literary magazine prototype. Starting with five founding collaborators (Guramrit Kaur, Teddi Meislahn, Desiree Rios, Chu Wang, and Aaron Wilder), each collaborator provided 1 photograph and 1 piece of writing that another collaborator responded to with the opposite form (responding to photography with writing and responding to writing with photography). All collaborators worked to launch a new publication using their skills, experience, and passion to create a platform for open expression and collective dialogue.

See/Saw: Home served as a soft launch of the publication and activated Swell Gallery as a laboratory featuring the collaborating artists responding to each other's work. Viewers were also invited to participate in the exchange/response format as Swell Gallery was transformed into a conduit of multi-channel communication. The interactive installation had the theme of "Home." Since November 2016, many currently residing in the United States have been forced to re-consider the notion of "home" regardless of citizenship status or national origin. The collaborators invited the community to actively engage with the installation by using it as a platform for dialogue about what and where home is and/or what and where it is not.

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