EMILY BATE X ECOSOCIAL

Emily Bate in collaboration with Ecosocial were hosted here at RAIR for ESSSSSS #9: Homo Economicus. Homo Economicus explores cultural narratives of the economy, and pathways to renegotiating this socially constructed system of meeting human need. It takes place at RAIR, an artist residency inside a construction and demolition recycling facility, right next to a Superfund site — two good examples of economic externalities.

MICHELLE LOPEZ X RAIR

RAIR has been in conversation with Michelle Lopez for nearly seven years as consultants and in R&D for her PEW-supported project, Pandemonium. This multimedia installation immerses audiences in reflections on meteorological and human-made disasters. For her installation at the Franklin Institute’s planetarium, RAIR helped design and film a “tornado machine” for a virtual sculpture/film of a trash tornado. This piece explores themes of climate change and systemic collapse, central to the project’s narrative.

GUADALUPE MARAVILLA

2024 Fellow Guadalupe Maravilla generosly supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has worked along side RAIR to create a series of gongs out of found matals form the recuclying center. Using these gongs guadalupe will host a series of healing sound ceremonies. a wide rgange o people from the philadelphuia healing community, immigrant communities, and the cancer survivors community will be invited to attend the ceremonies.

BILLY DUFALA ‘FUTURE FUTURES’

Billy Dufala’s work ‘Future Futures’ apart of Monument Labs group show Slow Motion at Grounds for Sculpture. Future Futures is both a sculpture and a material commodity. The forty bales are made of aluminum scraps that were diverted from landfills by human hands for future use.

On View from May 2024 - September 2025