Gabe Kenney
“It was a real treat to be able to develop such an extravagant project out of 100% recycled materials. I feel as if I wasn’t contributing to a waste culture by buying new materials that I then reshape . . . instead, [I was] reshaping what has been disregarded.”
Gabe Michael Kenney approached his short residency with a clear, focused set of goals. His plan was specific: to use waste materials to create a “Time Machine” and to develop a character, “Robert Collins”, the machine’s technician and mastermind. After building his Time Machine from found clocks, lockers, keyboards, phones, wires, hoses, ducts and umbrella ribs, Kenney orchestrated a performance and “pseudo-experiment in time travel” in which his character Robert Collins travels to the future to deliver cautionary messages about consumer habits and waste culture.
